They know that if they dared to take advantage of me, I should come down upon them pretty smartly." "Do you rely upon their attachment to your family--or on their idea of your severity ?" "On both.

They stand me instead of much trouble in account-keeping, and those eternal lawyers' letters some people are always dispatching to their tenants.

When I'm cheated, Frank, I give you leave to make me have an agent, but not till then.

There's my little Erminia singing away, and nobody to hear her.".