Now, indeed, Sir, you are very obliging.

Dost think, Jack, that my face did not now also shine?

I held out my hand, (first consecrating it with a kiss,) for her's. She
condescended to give it me. I pressed it to my lips: You know not
Captain Tomlinson, (with an air,) all storms overblown, what a happy
man--

Charming couple! [his hands lifted up,] how will my good friend rejoice!
O that he were present! You know not, Madam, how dear you still are to
your uncle Harlowe!

I am still unhappy ever to have disobliged him!

Not too much of that, however, fairest, thought I!

The Captain repeated his resolution of service, and that in so acceptable
a manner, that the dear creature wished that neither he, nor any of his,
might ever want a friend of equal benevolence.

Nor any of this, she said; for the Captain brought it in, that he had
five children living, by one of the best wives and mothers, whose
excellent management made him as happy as if his eight hundred pounds a
year (which was all he had to boast of) were two thousand.

Without economy, the oracular lady said, no estate was large enough.
With it, the least was not too small.

Lie still, teasing villain! lie still.--I was only speaking to my