Sabine Baring-Gould

“ Now I’ll have a little case made, and a sheet of glass, and a crook, and hang up Aunt Betsy’s moustache-cup on her tombstone. It will be quite beautiful, and moving to the feelings.’
When Mrs Fairbrother was back in the carriage, she said, ‘There is one thing I have seen which is horrible. The idea of letting graves by leases for five, seven, or ten years, and then digging up the dead and chucking the bones into a common pit. I’ll hire the ground as you call it ‘in perpetuity’ for Aunt Betsy. Let graves on lease, by paying!—and that where you have written up Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity! ”

“ If Mrs Fairbrother had been simply an ignorant, foolish, and vulgar woman, her daughter would not have turned out such a sweet and refined girl, notwithstanding the advantages given her, but Mrs Fairbrother was a woman with a vastly tender heart, high principle, and, though she talked like a fool, she acted sensibly. ”

“ You cannot get the honey without the flower.’
‘I see what it is,’ said the baron, losing his temper slightly. He was too well-bred and too easy-going a man to be greatly put out, and show it. ‘You want to carry off Mademoiselle yourself, and kill the beautiful blonde with chagrin.’
‘I amuse myself,’ answered Asheton, tapping his cigar against the ashpan on the table, and then throwing up his head again, and inhaling a long whiff of smoke. ”