What an abject he was before that woman, who was simply--" "Not a besom, Kate," interrupted the General, anxiously--afraid that a classical word was to be misused.
"Certainly not, for a besom must be nice, and at bottom a lady--in fact, a woman of decided character." "Quite so.

You 've hit the bull's-eye, Kit, and paid a neat compliment to yourself.

Have you a word for Mrs.Macintosh ?" "A vulgar termagant"-- the General indicated that would do--"who would call her husband an idiot aloud before a dinner-table, and quarrel like a fishwife with people in his presence.
"Why, he daren't call his soul his own; he belonged to the kirk, you know, and there was a Scotch padre, but she marched him off to our service, and if you had seen him trying to find the places in the Prayer-book.

If a man has n't courage enough to stand by his faith, he might as well go and hang himself.

Don't you think the first thing is to stick by your religion, and the next by your country, though it cost one his life ?" "That's it, lassie; every gentleman does." "She was a disgusting woman," continued Kate, "and jingling with money: I never saw so many precious stones wasted on one woman; they always reminded me of a jewel in a swine's snout." "Kate!" remonstrated her father, "that's.