“I didn't mean to condescend you, Mr. Shreck.”

The conjunctions produced by Mr. Gladstone's Budget, the publicans, the teetotallers, and the alliancers, are all rowing in the same boat in opposing wine licences to eating and coffeehouses, and it is alleged that immoralities will follow these coffee-house privileges beyond those which now exist in taverns.

When leading worship, Elsie usually wore a long black cassock and preaching bands. This would, of course, save her from the worry of choosing a suitable costume.

One could argue that Eliot's great heartbreakings were the overt physical signs of the inner psychological transformations achieved through brainwashing, cultural attack, and epidemic mortality.