Suppose you get in cheap made dishes from the pastrycook’s, and hire a couple of green-grocers, or carpet-beaters, to figure as footmen, dismissing honest MOLLY, who waits on common days, and bedizening your table (ordinarily ornamented with willow-pattern crockery) with twopenny-halfpenny Birmingham plate.

Better to go over a cliff than to live out the scrag-end of your life in a place like this.

an unstrained family relationship

Dwelling in meisms or emotionalisms will ensure that you remain outside the realm of purpose and never reach in your purposed destiny.