It would be like putting this friend into her scale to make weight--into the scale with her father and herself.

Amerigo and Charlotte would be in the other; therefore it would take the three of them to keep that one straight.
And as this played, all duskily, in her mind it had received from her father, with a sound of suddenness, a luminous contribution.

"Ah, rather! DO let's have the Assinghams." "It would be to have them," she had said, "as we used so much to have them.

For a good long stay, in the old way and on the old terms: 'as regular boarders' Fanny used to call it.

That is if they'll come." "As regular boarders, on the old terms--that's what I should like too.
But I guess they'll come," her companion had added in a tone into which she had read meanings.