W. Pett Ridge

“ Interest came with the arrangements for Spanswick's benefit. This necessitated calls at the theatre near the Obelisk in the evenings, and speech with excited men who went about behind the scenes with their hats at the backs of their heads: men who were for ever mislaying letters and documents, and complaining of everybody else's carelessness, and eventually finding the letters or documents in their own hands. ”

“ On one of her visits to Bermondsey she had met Louisa, white-faced and twitching as a result of her work, had gone to Louisa's employer, and had made him shake in his very shoes by denouncing him and all his works, had demanded for Louisa a fortnight's holiday, which the employer, anxious enough to conciliate this emphatic young titled person, and fearful of being sent to the Tower, at once conceded; sent Louisa, with sister Alice for company, away to the country house at Penshurst where the better side of Alice's nature detached itself, and she became an attentive nurse. ”

“ Railton had had to cut off his parents with a shilling on the grounds that they insisted on calling him Sammy.
Walking home after this fifteen minutes of happiness, Erb found himself continuing the talk, and affecting that Rosalind was tripping along at his side: it was in these silent talks that he dared to call her “dear,” thereupon colouring so much that passers-by glanced at him curiously; plain-faced ladies went on gay with the thought that their features had the power to confuse a stranger. ”