I have quarrelled with Uncle Philip: you with Mrs.Cole; and her husband would have launched me." "And it was to please her we settled here.

Oh, I could kill her: nasty cat!" "Never mind; it is not a case for despondency, but it is for prudence.
All we have to do is to look the thing in the face, and be very economical in everything.

I had better give you an allowance for housekeeping; and I earnestly beg you to buy things yourself whilst you are a poor man's wife, and pay ready money for everything.

My mother was a great manager, and she always said, 'There is but one way: be your own market-woman, and pay on the spot; never let the tradesmen get you on their books, or, what with false weight, double charges, and the things your servants order that never enter the house, you lose more than a hundred a year by cheating.'" Rosa yielded a languid assent to this part of his discourse, and it hardly seemed to enter her mind; but she raised no objection; and in due course he made her a special allowance for housekeeping.
It soon transpired that medical advice was to be had, gratis, at the Bijou, from eight till ten: and there was generally a good attendance.
But a week passed, and not one patient came of the class this couple must live by.

Christopher set this down to what people call "the transition period:" his Kent patients had lost him; his London patients not found him.