I haven't complained, and I'm not complaining now.

I'm sorry I came to speak to you about such a thing.

It seems as if you could never take a thing as I mean it.

It's like the potatoes at dinner; I meant to do you a kindness by giving you the choice, and you flew out as if you hadn't patience with me.' Emily kept her eyes upon the window.
'How you can say,' went on Mrs.Hood, 'that we've been cruel to you and done you a wrong--I know we've very different ways of looking at most things, but where we've wronged you is more than I can understand.' 'You have taken from me,' replied Emily, without moving her eyes, 'the power to help you.

I might have done much, now I can do nothing; and your loss is mine.' 'No, indeed, it isn't, and shan't be, Emily.