"Do you think that I will break bread in a house from whence she has been ignominiously banished?
Do you think that I can sit down in friendship with those who have spoken of her as you have now spoken?
You have many daughters; what would you say if I accused one of them as you have accused her ?" "Accused, doctor! No, I don't accuse her.

But prudence, you know, does sometimes require us--" "Very well; prudence requires you to look after those who belong to you; and prudence requires me to look after my one lamb.

Good morning, Lady Arabella." "But, doctor, you are not going to quarrel with us?
You will come when we want you; eh! won't you ?" Quarrel! quarrel with Greshamsbury! Angry as he was, the doctor felt that he could ill bear to quarrel with Greshamsbury.

A man past fifty cannot easily throw over the ties that have taken twenty years to form, and wrench himself away from the various close ligatures with which, in such a period, he has become bound.

He could not quarrel with the squire; he could ill bear to quarrel with Frank; though he now began to conceive that Frank had used him badly, he could not do so; he could not quarrel with the children, who had almost been born into his arms; nor even with the very walls, and trees, and grassy knolls with which he was so dearly intimate.