"One day, there was brought to him in a basket, as though it had been a basket of oysters, a stout, newly born boy, who was yelling like the deuce, and duly wrapped in swaddling-clothes, which a servant-maid, dismissed six months previously, attributed to him."
"A big Flemish servant-maid placed his knife and fork in all haste; he looked at the girl with a sensation of comfort."
"In the mean time a person gave a letter to the servant-maid for old Dr Campian, which she delivered immediately; and when"