You might have opened her eyes a little, or at least diminished the annoyance you had been, and still are enduring." "Yes, the opportunity was a good one, and I ought to have improved it.

But I did not and the whole system, sanctioned or not sanctioned by Mrs.Jordon, is in force against me." "And will continue, unless some means be adopted by which to abate the nuisance." "Seriously, Mr.Smith," said I, "I am clear for removing from the neighborhood." But Mr.Smith said, "Nonsense, Jane!" A form of expression he uses, when he wishes to say that my proposition or suggestion is perfectly ridiculous, and not to be thought of for a moment.
"What is to be done ?" I asked.

"Bear the evil ?" "Correct it, if you can." "And if not, bear it the best I can ?" "Yes, that is my advice." This was about the extent of aid I ever received from my husband in any of my domestic difficulties.

He is a first-rate abstractionist, and can see to a hair how others ought to act in every imaginable, and I was going to say unimaginable case; but is just as backward about telling people what he thinks of them, and making everybody with whom he has anything to do toe the mark, as I am.
As the idea of moving to get rid of my borrowing neighbor was considered perfect nonsense by Mr.Smith, I began to think seriously how I should check the evil, now grown almost insufferable.

On the next morning the coffee-mill was borrowed to begin with.
"Hasn't Mrs.Jordon got a coffee-mill of her own ?" I asked of Bridget.
"Yes, ma'am," she replied, "but it is such a poor one that Nancy won't use it.