You ain't a fool, though I suppose you'll be afraid to open your mouth." "Julia," said Lady Eustace, "will you have the kindness to see that my aunt is shown to her carriage.

I cannot stand her violence, and I will go up-stairs." So saying she made her way very gracefully into the back drawing-room, whence she could escape to her bed-room.
But her aunt fired a last shot at her.

"Unless you do as you're bid, Lizzie, you'll find yourself in prison as sure as eggs!" Then, when her niece was beyond hearing, she turned to Miss Macnulty.

"I suppose you've heard about these diamonds, Macnulty ?" "I know she's got them, Lady Linlithgow." "She has no more right to them than you have.

I suppose you're afraid to tell her so, lest she should turn you out;--but it's well she should know it.