| Miss Pecksniff only spoke to her Augustus, and to him in whispers. |
| It was not that pecksniff, Tom's pecksniff, had ceased to exist, but that he never had existed. |
| His vinegary daughter Charity out of the way, Pecksniff began to persecute Mary more and more. |
| And even when I come to feel a final incompatibility of temper, Pecksniff was not so Pecksniffian as he has since become. |
| Mr Pecksniff looked up to the ceiling, and clasped his hands in rapture. |
| And did she think,' said Mr Pecksniff, with a playful tightening of his grasp 'that she could! |
