You can't make a head and brains out of a brass knob with nothing in it. You couldn't do it when your uncle George was living much less when he's dead.

“So he whistles it off, and marches on”

“For the next eight or ten months, Oliver was the victim of a systematic course …”

“I believed, from the solitary and thoughtful way in which my mother murmured he…”

“And yet I love him. I love him so much and so dearly, that when I sometimes thi…”