"Take this away, and bring more tea."
"My dear," whispered Lady P—— to a friend, "she won't match that china for $500."
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Another illustration of the latter:
A fearful railway accident has taken place. The first car, with its human contents, is reduced to atoms.
An Englishman, who was in one of the first-class cars at the rear, examines the débris.
"Oh!" he says to an official, pointing to a piece of flesh wrapped up in a piece of tweed cloth. "Pick that up, that's the piece of my butler that has got the keys of my trunks."