The poor child said to me only yesterday, ‘Oh, Laura! he is our preserver!’ And their preserver he has been, under heaven “Why, Philip Firmin has all the habits of a rich man with the pay of a mechanic Not for mere wealth — ah, no! not for tod's france mines of gold — would they sacrifice their darling child What, Brownie, Brownie! Philip is glad to see the dog, an old friend who has many a time licked his hand and bounced upon his knee Young people are already much too sentimental, and inclined to idle, maudlin reading “You are fond of your cousin?”“Oh! for ev tod's soldes — ”“For ever, of course! At least until we change our mind, or one of us grows tired, or finds a better mate I laughed one day, on going to the Pall Mall Gazette office, to find Philip installed in the sub-editor’s room, with a provision of scissors, wafers, and paste-pots, snipping paragraphs from this paper and that, altering, condensing, giving titles, and so forth; and, in a word, in regular harness I heard him laughing through the silent street, and policeman X, tramping on his beat, turned round and suspiciously eyed him — It is better to drink tea than, like you fellows, to muddle what brains you have with bad champagne“You smoke and drink too much O my jolly companions, I have drunk many a bout with you, and always found vanitas vanitatum written on the bottom of the pot!I choose to moralize now when I pass the place He described the wealth of the lady (a widow from Norfolk, in Virginia) to whom he was about to be united Soup, of course, my love; fish, capital wine, and, I should say, some five or six and thirty made dishes At a hint that she would be a welcome guest in our house, in London, where all her heart and treasure lay, Charlotte Baynes gave up straightway her dear aunt, at Tours, who had been kind to her; her dear uncle, her dear mamma, and all her dear brothers — following that natural law which ordains that a woman, under certain circumstances, shall resign home, parents, brothers, sisters, for the sake of that one individual who is henceforth to be dearer to her than all “That boy brought about a reconciliation between his mother and her uncle, after her runaway match”“Oh, Charlotte, Charlotte!” interposes the Little Sister, rather peevishly; “of course, Mrs Firmin How she bustled about on the night when Philip arrived! What a beaming welcome there mocassins tod's was in her kind eyes! Her modest hair was touched with silver now; but her cheeks were like apples; her little figure was neat, and light, and active; and her voice, with its gentle laugh, and little sweet bad grammar, has always seemed one of the sweetest of voices to me The inequalities in men’s chances in life were monstrous and ridiculous “Mais, madame!” pleads Madame Smolensk, in her grave way “Now listen to me once more — Who wrote that article pitching into Peel?Mr T We happened to know where Philip dined, and sent him word to come to us In Lady Smolensk’s place Madame de Macbeth would have broken down in a week: and Smolensk lasted for years Bradgate’s companyThe speeches went on“I was dreadfully bullied at that school,” he said, in an appealing manner, to Mr Our friends no doubt would have preferred to dispense with this ceremony; but it is ill looking even a gift cab-horse in the mouth, and so Philip was a gainer of some two shillings by his kinsman’s liberality (Immense applause; during which Dr You are a man again And though there were not five pounds in the poor little house in Milman Street, there were not two happier people in London that night than Charlotte and Philip FirminWoolcomb 216 Hornblow 92“We are beaten,” said Mr When he takes his colchicum he’s worse I have known women come in and peep at it “There’s Benton the Judge: Benton, and Burbage, you know The atmosphere of those polite drawing-rooms stifles me Philip was about to present him with a third ornament to his nursery was a beast, and she was only sorry that Mr He was determined, henceforth, to look at a man for himself alone, and not esteem him for any of the absurd caprices of fortune Lowndes eliminated him I can’t imagine that ladies like to destroy either themselves or their children, though they submit with bravery, and even cheerfulness, to the decrees of that religion which orders them to make away with their own or their young ones’ lives Terrible enemies in print, in private they are perfectly good friends, and the little passages of arms between the two journalists serve rather to amuse than to irritate “You are restored to your atavis regibus and ancestral honours Never mind”“Then what do you come to talk about me at all for? and what scheme on hearth are you driving at? and what brings this old man here?” cries the landlady of Thornhaugh Street, stamping her foot And the general and his old West India governor meeting at church, my lord Trim straightway asked General Baynes to dinner, where Lord Ringwood was present, along with other distinguished company, whom at present we need not particularize Philip when he summoned the waiter, and paid for his petit verre Deuceace brought him down here, and won his money from him; and then how you gave him his revenge at your own house in — ”“Did I come here to be insulted by that fellow?” cries Mr Philip was poverty’s prisoner “Did I not tell you,” said my wife, with her usual kindling romance, “that comfort and succour would be found for these in the hour of their need?” Amen I have suffered enough from it already Knowing that boutique meant shop and gar?on meant boy, Mrs You would be put to simmer for many hours in an earthen pan, and — ”“Don’t be horrible, Arthur!” cries a young lady, who was my mother’s companion of those happy daysThe doctor was engaged in conversation to the right and left of him, and seemed not to think of a move She took a piece of work, and sat amongst them, furtively weeping He thought he saw something of Philip Ringwood in Philip Firmin’s face I am speaking of simple old days, you understand Philip never chaussures tod's told me