Sublime

Miguel tries to look jokey-penitent, but misses and looks like a man in white jeans who underestimates a spot of flatulence.

She was a simpering, but masculine creature. Old romances produce that effect when rubbed against the imagination of cook-shop woman.

a man like Mr. Peggotty was not a bad person to have on board if anything did happen. Nothing happened, however, worse than morning.

He was even in many ways very modern, which some rather erroneously suppose to be the same as being human;