The fact is, you are disgracing the family you have married into, and as you are my niece--" "I'm not disgracing anybody.

You are disgracing everybody." "As you are my niece, I have undertaken to come to you and to tell you that if you don't give 'em up within a week from this time, they'll proceed against you for--stealing 'em!" Lady Linlithgow, as she uttered this terrible threat, bobbed her head at her niece in a manner calculated to add very much to the force of her words.

The words, and tone, and gesture combined were, in truth, awful.
"I didn't steal them.

My husband gave them to me with his own hands." "You wouldn't answer Mr.Camperdown's letters, you know.

That alone will condemn you.