We were all expected to be in bed by lights-out.

Take of Jujubes Nᵒ vi. that is, Six in number.

Kate, don't be so bolshie!

It will be acquiesced in by a much less deserving band, if band it may be called, when each fights for his own hand, without respect to his neighbour, by those who have set their hearts and their treasures in this world, and exert what powers of thought they in devising a sickly optimism, by which the existing state of things, whatever it may be, may be made into a fool's paradise — men of whom Charles Lamb was perhaps the most favourable specimen, that mild-eyed melancholy Lotophagus of literature.