I don't think I could have got through without that, when they left me in peace, till Cheviot and Harry came to rout me up, and I knew it was all coming." "Ah! you have overworked yourself, but it was for something.

You have given papa such pleasure and comfort, as you can't help being glad of.
That is very different from us foolish young ones and our trumpeting." "What comfort can it be?
I've not been the smallest use all this time.
When he was ill, I left him to Ernescliffe, and lay on the floor like an ass; and if he were to ask me to touch his arm, I should be as bad again.

A fine thing for me to have talked all that arrogant stuff about Richard! I hate the thought of it; and, as if to make arrows and barbs of it, here's Richard making as much of this as if it was a double first class! He afraid to be compared with me, indeed!" "Norman, indeed, this is going too far.

We can't be as useful as the elder ones; and when you know how papa was vexed about Richard, you must be glad to have pleased him." "If I were he, it would only make me miss her more.

I believe he only makes much of me that he may not disappoint me." "I don't think so.