He said, 'I shall go.' 'You can't,' said my friend; 'you have taken a lease.' 'Lease be d--d,' said the other; 'I never took YOUR house; here's quite a large stench not specified in your description of the property--IT CAN'T BE THE SAME PLACE;' flung the lease at his head, and cut like the wind to foreign parts less odoriferous.

I'd have got you the hole for ninety; but you are like your wife--you must go to an agent.

What! don't you know that an agent is a man acting for you with an interest opposed to yours?
Employing an agent! it is like a Trojan seeking the aid of a Greek.

You needn't cry, Mrs.Staines; your husband has been let in deeper than you have.

Now, you are young people beginning life; I'll give you a piece of advice.