The Green Dwarf

When these gentlemen felt the not-very-slight pressure of Mr Gifford's falling carcass, they testified their sense of its inconvenience by that disagreeable agitation of the limbs called kicking.

'I merely wished to know if you could inform this gentleman what sort of temper Lady Charlesworth had.'
'What sort of temper! Why I don't know. Much the same as other girls of her age have, and that's a very bad one.'