I suppose there must be settlements ?" "Of course there must." "And I can only do what other people tell me.

You at any rate have something to do with it all, and I have absolutely nothing." "That is no reason you shouldn't go in the same carriage with me to Rufford." "Are you coming back to that,--just like a big child?
Do let us consider that as settled.

I'm sure you'll let mamma and me have the use of the phaeton." Of course the little contest was ended in the manner proposed by Arabella.
"I do think," said Arabella, when she and her mother were seated in the carriage, "that we have treated him very badly." "Quite as well as he deserves! What a house to bring us to;--and what people! Did you ever come across such an old woman before! And she has him completely under her thumb.

Are you prepared to live with that harridan ?" "You may let me alone, mamma, for all that.

She won't be in my way after I'm married, I can tell you." "You'll have something to do then." "I ain't a bit afraid of her." "And to ask us to meet such people as this American!" "He's going back to Washington and it suited him to have him.