But as concerns my uncle, I do not feel myself called on to consult him in any way on such a matter." "And yet he is the head of our family." "I don't care anything about the family,--not in that way." "And he has been very generous to you all." "That I deny.

He has not been generous to mamma.

He is very hard and ungenerous to mamma.

He lets her have that house because he is anxious that the Dales should seem to be respectable before the world; and she lives in it, because she thinks it better for us that she should do so.

If I had my way, she should leave it to-morrow--or, at any rate, as soon as Lily is married.