"On my first day in London I made an early start. Reaching the Public Record Office not much after ten, I soon secured…"

"Julia's unhappy relationship with the Inland Revenue was due to her omission, during four years of modestly successfu…"

"You will be interested to hear, Hilary, that it had a most remarkable effect—even on Selena after a very modest quant…"

"I say, Larwood, is this tax-planning business really as exciting as these Daffodil characters seem to think or do the…"

"“How can you—how dare you have such wicked, revengeful thoughts?” “Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural,” answered…"

"The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in…"

"And this I set down as a positive truth. A woman with fair opportunities, and without a positive hump, may marry whom…"

"If mere parsimony could have made a man rich, Sir Pitt Crawley might have become very wealthy."

"Vanity Fair—Vanity Fair! Here was a man, who could not spell, and did not care to read—who had the habits and the cun…"

"“And for what follows after death,” would Mr. Crawley observe, throwing his gooseberry-coloured eyes up to the ceilin…"