"But the 'food' was only very thin paper of a peculiar kind, which Ham Logan and I worked out together.

[Footnote 4: Who but Gissing could describe a heroine as exhibiting in her countenance 'habitual nourishment on good and plenteous food'?]

Our old Sussex cowman says that even the cows eat their food 'kind of kinder like' when the family are at home.