They are fall of expectations: and of what else?
They are hard bargainers.
She thought this of men; and she liked men by choice.

She had old nurse's preference for the lustier male child.

The others are puling things, easier to rear, because they bend better; and less esteemed, though they give less trouble, rouse less care.

But when it came to the duel between the man and the woman, her sense of justice was moved to join her with the party of her unfairly handled sisters--a strong party, if it were not so cowardly, she had to think.
Mr.Eglett, her husband, accepted her--accepted the position into which he naturally fell beside her, and the ideas she imposed on him; for she never went counter to his principles.

These were the fixed principles of a very wealthy man, who abhorred debt, and was punctilious in veracity, scrupulous in cleanliness of mind and body, devoted to the honour of his country, the interests of his class.