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But gradually we settled into our respective grooves, and I have grown to like my little groove very much, narrow though it be a poor thing, but mine own! "Iwish you hadn't asked Captain Wareham, Lizzie. Horrid man! I can't bear him!" "Dear me, Charlotte isn't the world big enough for you both?" "Yes; but your little Dining-room isn't!"
Tom Tufto absolutely left the street in which they lived in London, because he said 'it was infected with such a confounded smell of whisky from the house of those IWISH people. It was abroad that they learned to be genteel. They pushed into all foreign courts, and elbowed their way into the halls of Ambassadors.
'Gwacious Gad' what stories about 'the Iwish' these young dandies accompanying King Richard must have had to tell, when they returned to Pall Mall, and smoked their cigars upon the steps of 'White's. The Irish snobbishness developes itself not in pride so much as in servility and mean admirations, and trumpery imitations of their neighbours.
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