'In God's name where do you expect the money is to come from ?' When Georgiana urged that other people had money to go abroad, her father told her that a time was coming in which she might think it lucky if she had a house over her head.

This, however, she took as having been said with poetical licence, the same threat having been made more than once before.

The treaty was very clear, and the parties to it were prepared to carry it out with fair honesty.

The Melmottes were being treated with decent courtesy, and the house in town was not dismantled.
The idea, hardly ever in truth entertained but which had been barely suggested from one to another among the ladies of the family, that Dolly should marry Marie Melmotte, had been abandoned.

Dolly, with all his vapid folly, had a will of his own, which, among his own family, was invincible.