He was a very little man and dropped his h's.
"Her mother was what the vulgar would call a `whopper.' Let not the reader think she whopped her baby or her husband.

On the contrary, she was kind, but big.
"They lived at Highbury, and the nurse always took the baby out for walks before breakfast." It was at this point that it had suddenly flashed across me that I had left out the joke allotted to Chapter One, and as the narrative was well advanced, I ought to work up for it without delay.

So I proceeded.
"We left Alicia, for that was the name of our heroine, being wheeled back on the organ to Hatton Garden.

It was an unpleasant journey.

The bad woman called at a lot more public-houses, and left Alicia and the organ outside in the rain.
"It was a wonder Alicia was not stolen again.