The least we expected were some thumping challenges to introduce themselves to the aristocrats.
But although this is sanitised Dickens, Bart manages to write some thumping good tunes and provide scope for individual actors.
"We've won a few against them, but they have some thump in their lineup and that could turn around in a hurry," Tigers Manager Jim Leyland said.
The world No 19 hit some thumping forehands, but Wozniacki was largely responsible for her own downfall, making far too many mistakes.
Some thump on about how badly written it is ("eighth-grade gurglings", the American novelist William Giraldi called it), a view that is bullshit, for two reasons.
Canzler is a right-handed hitter with some thump in his bat who can play the outfield and first base, much like the former Yankee Nick Swisher, whom the Indians recently signed to a four-year, $56 million deal.
They needed a play-off to do it, though: despite some thumping wins (9-1 v Ecuador, 10-1 v Bolivia, 5-0 v Colombia, 7-1 v Peru), the hosts finished level on points with Paraguay in the eight-team 'league of nations'.
The two batsmen, though, mixed solid defence with some thumping attacking shots, driving strongly, especially straight and through the offside – although Ambrose in particular played well off his legs which has not always been the forte of a natural cutter and carver.
Alistair Darling MP is the leader of the pro-UK Better Together campaign and a former chancellor of the exchequer Projecting forwards with maximum vision – Glasgow's science centre was the perfect location for the launch of the Scottish government's white paper on independence, introduced with some thumping bravado as "the most comprehensive blueprint for an independent country ever published".
