Oh, but reasoning is so much worse than scolding!... I didn't marry to be reasoned with. If you meant to reason with such a poor little thing as I am, you ought to have told me so, you cruel boy!

“Do you feel, yet, that you belong to this terrestrial scheme again, Mr. Darnay?…”

“Fellow of Delicacy XIII. The Fellow of No Delicacy XIV. The Honest Tradesman XV…”

“...she had grown up highly ornamental, but perfectly helpless and useless.”

“Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!.... his factory…”