She sided with her brother.
Only pen in hand did he lay himself open to the enemy.

In his personal intercourse he was the last of men to be taken at a disadvantage.

Lady Charlotte was brought round to the distasteful idea of some help coming from a legitimate adjunct at his elbow: a restraining woman--wife, it had to be said.

And to name the word wife for Thomas Rowsley, Earl of Ormont, put up the porcupine quills she bristled with at the survey of a sex thirsting, and likely to continue thirsting, for such honour.

What woman had she known fit to bear the name?
She had assumed the judicial seat upon the pretensions of several, and dismissed them to their limbo, after testifying against them.