Cultivate a superiority to reason, and see how you pare the claws of all the sensible people when they try to scratch you for your own good! Finding that I made no remark, and that my mistress made no remark, Sergeant Cuff proceeded.

Lord! how it did enrage me to notice that he was not in the least put out by our silence! "There is the case, my lady, as it stands against Miss Verinder alone," he said.

"The next thing is to put the case as it stands against Miss Verinder and the deceased Rosanna Spearman taken together.

We will go back for a moment, if you please, to your daughter's refusal to let her wardrobe be examined.

My mind being made up, after that circumstance, I had two questions to consider next.