Now I 've done.' 'So have I; and you have my answer, Rowsley.' They quitted their chairs.
'You decline to call on my wife ?' said the earl.
Lady Charlotte replied: 'Understand me, now.

If the woman has won you round to legitimize the connection, first, I've a proper claim to see her marriage lines.

I must have a certificate of her birth.

I must have a testified account of her life before you met her and got the worst of it.

Then, as the case may be, I 'll call on her.
'You will behave yourself when you call.' 'But she won't have our family jewels.' 'That affair has been settled by me.' 'I should be expecting to hear of them as decorating the person of one of that man Morsfield's mistresses.' The earl's brow thickened.