As she passed through the dining-room she heard, behind the purdah that cloaked the drawing-room door, her husband's voice, […]

The steep slate roofs were topped with bronze finials so tall and fanciful they looked like drops of liquid sliding down a thread.

But you see, sir,turning to me, I'm not one as has been brought up among the slack-handed of these days.

There are few pleasanter sights than a well-to-do family seated round a well-furnished table; and that was the sight which met his gaze. There was Mr. Brown, and Mrs. Brown, and all the little Browns: they seemed to be doing it brown, even down to the pig, and he looked as brown as any of them.