I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

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

“I am a disappointed drudge, sir. I care for no man on earth, and no man on eart…”

“[W]e talk about the tyranny of words, but we like to tyrannise over them too; w…”

“But the sun itself, however beneficent, generally, was less kind to Coketown th…”