"An, it'll be easier for a man wi'
rheumatics to come in at th' door."
'What's the reason,' said Mr Squeers, deriving fresh facetiousness from the bottle; 'what's the reason of
rheumatics? What do they mean?
"Once
rheumatic, always
rheumatic, I fear," he replied.
But I must object to your dooming Colonel Brandon and his wife to the constant confinement of a sick chamber, merely because he chanced to complain yesterday (a very cold damp day) of a slight
rheumatic feel in one of his shoulders."
She had
rheumatic fever, too, at the same time, so she couldn't thrash 'round.