I fancied you had good Diſpoſitions which, under maſterlie Trayning, would ripen into noble Principles; and therefore promoted your Marriage as far as my Intereſt with your Father had Weight. A use of the obsolete spelling of the word for literary effect.

Thus psychologically broken, they're offered a lifeline: Nicky and Co. offer to shave a decade off their fizzogs courtesy of a haircut, a makeover and a faceload of plastic surgery.

The greater part of his property he has acquired himself during years of industry ; but with it he has acquired the most rooted habits of suspicion.

Better is...be it new or stale, A harmelesse lie, than a harmefull true tale.