'There might be no tie of blood at all between her and the elder, so far as I can see.' 'Oh, I don't know that.

There's more than you think, or Catherine wouldn't have kept her hold over her so far as she has.

Generally she gets her way, except about the music.

There Rose sticks to it.' 'And why shouldn't she ?' 'Ah, well, you see, my dear fellow, I am old enough, and you're not, to remember what people in the old days used to think about art.

Of course nowadays we all say very fine things about it; but Richard Leyburn would no more have admitted that a girl who hadn't got her own bread or her family's to earn by it was justified in spending her time in fiddling than he would have approved of her spending it in dancing.