Now when one member of a household is making a struggle for a family, it is painful to see the benefit of that struggle negatived by the folly of another member.

The future Mrs Moffat did feel aggrieved by the fatuity of the young heir, and, consequently, took upon herself to look as much like her Aunt de Courcy as she could do.
"Well, what is it ?" said Frank, looking rather disgusted.

"What makes you stick your chin up and look in that way ?" Frank had hitherto been rather a despot among his sisters, and forgot that the eldest of them was now passing altogether from under his sway to that of the tailor's son.
"Frank," said Augusta, in a tone of voice which did honour to the great lessons she had lately received.

"Aunt de Courcy wants to see you immediately in the small drawing-room;" and, as she said so, she resolved to say a few words of advice to Miss Thorne as soon as her brother should have left them.
"In the small drawing-room, does she?
Well, Mary, we may as well go together, for I suppose it is tea-time now." "You had better go at once, Frank," said Augusta; "the countess will be angry if you keep her waiting.

She has been expecting you these twenty minutes.