Ma'am!" He bowed an arm to Mrs.Chump, who took it, with a scared look at him: "Why, if ye haven't got a tear in your eye, Pole ?" "Nonsense, nonsense," quoth he, bowing another arm to Adela.
"Papa, I'm not to be winked at," said she, accepting convoy; and there was some laughter, all about nothing, as they went in to dinner.
The ladies were studiously forbearing in their treatment of Mrs.
Chump.

Women are wonderfully quick scholars under ridicule, though it half-kills them.

Wilfrid's theory had impressed the superior grace of civility upon their minds, and, now that they practised it, they were pleased with the contrast they presented.

Not the less were they maturing a serious resolve.

The suspicion that their father had secret vile designs in relation to Mrs.Chump, they kept in the background.