_That_ is what I dislike most particularly.

It raises my spleen more than anything, to have the pretence of being asked, of being given a choice, and at the same time addressed in such a way as to oblige one to do the very thing, whatever it be! If I had not luckily thought of standing up with you I could not have got out of it.

It is a great deal too bad.

But when my aunt has got a fancy in her head, nothing can stop her.".