I was quite astonished.

An uncle with whom she has been living so many years, and who, whatever his faults may be, is so very fond of her brother, treating him, they say, quite like a son.

I could not have believed it!" "I thought you would be struck.

It was very wrong; very indecorous." "And very ungrateful, I think." "Ungrateful is a strong word.

I do not know that her uncle has any claim to her _gratitude_; his wife certainly had; and it is the warmth of her respect for her aunt's memory which misleads her here.