“A very little key will open a very heavy door.”

“The society of girls is a very delightful thing, Copperfield. It's not professional, but it's very delightful.”

“She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good.”

“There are very few moments in a man's existence when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable commiseration, as when he is in pursuit of his own hat.”

“Always the way!" muttered the Jew to himself as he turned homewards. "The worst of these women is, that a very little thing serves to call up some long-forgotten feeling; and the best of them is, that it never lasts. Ha! ha!”

“There was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationery.”

“Thus terminating the interview, during which both ladies had trembled very much, and been marvellously polite--certain indications that they were within an inch of a very desperate quarrel...”