I will never set up a carriage till I have taken a hundred-guinea fee." "Oh! Then we shall go splashing through the mud all our days." "Or ride in a cab," said Christopher, with a quiet doggedness that left no hope of his yielding.
One afternoon Miss Lucas called for Mrs.Staines to drive in the Park, but did not come up-stairs; it was an engagement, and she knew Mrs.
Staines would be ready, or nearly.

Mrs.Staines, not to keep her waiting, came down rather hastily, and in the very passage whipped out of her pocket a little glass, and a little powder puff, and puffed her face all over in a trice.

She was then going out; but her husband called her into the study.

"Rosa, my dear," said he, "you were going out with a dirty face." "Oh!" cried she, "give me a glass." "There is no need of that.

All you want is a basin and some nice rain-water.