One almost comes to doubt whether any one ought to learn to write at all, when it is used for such vile purposes.
I've said what I've got to say, and I don't mean to say anything more.

What's the use?
But it has been hard upon me,--very.

It was my money did it, and I feel I've misused it.

It's a disgrace to me which I don't deserve." For a couple of minutes Dorothy remained quite silent, and Miss Stanbury did not herself say anything further.

Nor during that time did she observe her niece, or she would probably have seen that the subject was not to be dropped.