One of her instructors in fashion had given her to understand that curls were not the thing. 'They'll always pass muster,' Miss Dunstable had replied, 'when they are done up with bank notes.'

Before the reader is introduced to the modest country medical practitioner who is to be the chief personage of the following tale, it will be well that he shou…

There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.

The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheape…

Sister, look ye, How, by a new creation of my tailor's I've shook off old mortality.