Never had their mutual and similar, though opposed, resources been drawn out so copiously and unreservedly.

This was the shining scrawl of all that each could do to gain a fight.

They admired one another's contemptibly justifiable evasions, changes of front, statements bordering the lie, even to meanness in the withdrawal of admissions and the denial of the same ever having been made.

That was Charlotte! That was Rowsley! Anything to beat down the adversary.
As to will, the woman's will, of these two, equalled the man's.

They were matched in obstinacy and unscrupulousness.
Her ingenuitics of the defence eluded his attacks, and compelled him to fall on heavy iteration of his demand for the jewels, an immediate restitution of the jewels.