You don't know anything about business, I tell you." And Mr.Shelby, not knowing any other way of enforcing his ideas, raised his voice,--a mode of arguing very convenient and convincing, when a gentleman is discussing matters of business with his wife.
Mrs.Shelby ceased talking, with something of a sigh.

The fact was, that though her husband had stated she was a woman, she had a clear, energetic, practical mind, and a force of character every way superior to that of her husband; so that it would not have been so very absurd a supposition, to have allowed her capable of managing, as Mr.Shelby supposed.

Her heart was set on performing her promise to Tom and Aunt Chloe, and she sighed as discouragements thickened around her.
"Don't you think we might in some way contrive to raise that money?
Poor Aunt Chloe! her heart is so set on it!" "I'm sorry, if it is.

I think I was premature in promising.

I'm not sure, now, but it's the best way to tell Chloe, and let her make up her mind to it.