I will brace up to my duty.

Couldn't you try and pacify Lillie a little, poor girl?
I suppose I have been rough with her." "Oh, yes, John, I will go up and talk with Lillie, and condole with her; and perhaps we shall bring her round.

And then when my husband comes home next week, we'll have a family palaver, and he will find some ways and means of setting this business straight, that it won't be so bad as it looks now.

There may be arrangements made when the creditors come together.

My impression is that, whenever people find a man really determined to arrange a matter of this kind honorably, they are all disposed to help him; so don't be cast down about the business.