Quotes on Fortnight

An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.

Her family had of late been exceedingly fluctuating. For many years of her life she had had two sons; but the crime and annihilation of Edward a few weeks ago, had robbed her of one; the similar annihilation of Robert had left her for a fortnight without any; and now, by the resurrection of Edward, she had one again.

One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.