“She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and the mind of the most resolute of men.”

“Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search.”

“‘You must know’, said he, ‘That though I am a bachelor, I have to keep up a considerable staff of servants at Hurlstone.’”