As for dear Amelia, she, I grant you, is a pearl, and would be charming anywhere.

There now, I see you are beginning to be in a good humour; but oh these queer odd City people! And Mr.Jos--how is that wonderful Mr.Joseph ?" "It seems to me you didn't dislike that wonderful Mr.Joseph last year," Osborne said kindly.
"How severe of you! Well, entre nous, I didn't break my heart about him; yet if he had asked me to do what you mean by your looks (and very expressive and kind they are, too), I wouldn't have said no." Mr.Osborne gave a look as much as to say, "Indeed, how very obliging!" "What an honour to have had you for a brother-in-law, you are thinking?
To be sister-in-law to George Osborne, Esquire, son of John Osborne, Esquire, son of--what was your grandpapa, Mr.Osborne?
Well, don't be angry.

You can't help your pedigree, and I quite agree with you that I would have married Mr.Joe Sedley; for could a poor penniless girl do better?
Now you know the whole secret.

I'm frank and open; considering all things, it was very kind of you to allude to the circumstance--very kind and polite.

Amelia dear, Mr.Osborne and I were talking about your poor brother Joseph.