Well, as I said, they illustrate the natural course of things, the transition from the old age to the new.

If Eldon has sons, they'll go in for commerce, and make themselves, if they can, millionaires; but by that time they'll dispense with airs and insolence--see if they don't.' Adela kept her eyes on the pages before her, but she was listening intently.

A sort of verisimilitude in the picture drawn by her Radical-minded brother could not escape her; her thought was troubled.
When she spoke it was without resentment, but gravely.
'I don't like this spirit in judging of people.

You know quite well, Alfred, how easy it is to see the whole story in quite another way.

You begin by a harsh and worldly judgment, and it leads you to misrepresent all that follows.