"Well, well!" said my aunt. "I only ask. I don't depreciate her. Poor little couple! And so you think you were formed for one another, and are to go through a party-supper-table kind of life, like two pretty pieces of confectionery, do you, Trot?"

The works of Charles Dickens. Household ed. [22 vols. Orig. issued in monthly parts]. (ed. 1871)