If your mother keeps the house, it is but fair that she should select her company.

When you give her house over her head, and transfer her banker's account to yourself for the benefit of Miss What-d'-you-call-'em--Miss Costigan--don't you think you should at least have consulted my sister as one of the principal parties in the transaction?
I am speaking to you, you see, without the least anger or assumption of authority, such as the law and your father's will give me over you for three years to come--but as one man of the world to another,--and I ask you, if you think that, because you can do what you like with your mother, therefore you have a right to do so?
As you are her dependent, would it not have been more generous to wait before you took this step, and at least to have paid her the courtesy to ask her leave ?" Pen held down his head, and began dimly to perceive that the action on which he had prided himself as a most romantic, generous instance of disinterested affection, was perhaps a very selfish and headstrong piece of folly.
"I did it in a moment of passion," said Pen, floundering; "I was not aware what I was going to say or to do" (and in this he spoke with perfect sincerity) "But now it is said, and I stand to it.

No; I neither can nor will recall it.

I'll die rather than do so.

And I--I don't want to burthen my mother," he continued.