Make any remark you please against the gentlemen, or against me; but don't say you're not understood in this house.' 'I'm not treated as if I was,' said the youngest gentleman.
'There you make a great mistake, sir,' returned Mrs Todgers, in the same strain.

'As many of the gentlemen and I have often said, you are too sensitive.

That's where it is.

You are of too susceptible a nature; it's in your spirit.' The young gentleman coughed.
'And as,' said Mrs Todgers, 'as to Mr Jinkins, I must beg of you, if we ARE to part, to understand that I don't abet Mr Jinkins by any means.
Far from it.

I could wish that Mr Jinkins would take a lower tone in this establishment, and would not be the means of raising differences between me and gentlemen that I can much less bear to part with than I could with Mr Jinkins.