"You have put it out of his power to marry an Englishwoman who would have known it was her duty to give something in return for his name and protection." Her ladyship had begun to rave also, and as mother and son were of equal violence when they had ceased to control themselves, Rosalie began to find herself enlightened unsparingly.

She and her people were vulgar sharpers.

They had trapped a gentleman into a low American marriage and had not the decency to pay for what they had got.

If she had been an Englishwoman, well born, and of decent breeding, all her fortune would have been properly transferred to her husband and he would have had the dispensing of it.

Her husband would have been in the position to control her expenditure and see that she did not make a fool of herself.