There was a moment of surprised silence, broken by Rosie: "Well, you may as well give up.

Grandpa is not to be conquered, as I knew when the contest began." Max and Evelyn were looking much distressed.
"Oh, Lulu, do!" entreated the latter; "you surely have held out long enough," "I should think so," said Max; "especially considering how kind Grandpa Dinsmore has been to us all, and that papa ordered us to be obedient to him." "I'd give up," remarked Walter, "'cause there's no use fighting grandpa.
Everybody has to mind him.

Even mamma never does anything he asks her not to." "The idea of not being your own mistress, even when you're a grandmother!" exclaimed Lulu scornfully.
"Mamma _is_ her own mistress," retorted Rose.

"It is only that she loves grandpa so dearly, and thinks him so wise and good, that she _prefers_ to do just as he wishes her to.".