"If you please, I 'd rather not," says she.

To cut it short, the sacrifice I made to her was the cause.
It's all over the house.

She gave the most excruciating hint.

Those low-born females are so horribly indelicate.

I stood confounded.
Commending his new humour, Evan persuaded him to breakfast immediately, and hunger being one of Jack's solitary incitements to a sensible course of conduct, the disconsolate gentleman followed its dictates.