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"Well, there is Mrs Earnest, her mother-in-law is a jewel"

"Ah, now you mention a most valuable piece of property, for a woman like that--who models her conduct on the pattern of Aunt Betsey Trotwood, in David Copperfield's household, is a jewel of such nitude and brilliancy, that she will so in Abraham's bosom, from a distance of millions of miles"

"Well, hoould you cook mothers-in-law?"

"Make a delicious dish of your husband and then take a pinch--a good pinch--ofof this, remember that too many cooks spoil the broth, and wife and enerally make a pretty mess of the husband"