You were maudlin, Jos.
Don't you remember singing a song ?" "A what ?" Jos asked.
"A sentimental song, and calling Rosa, Rebecca, what's her name, Amelia's little friend--your dearest diddle-diddle-darling ?" And this ruthless young fellow, seizing hold of Dobbin's hand, acted over the scene, to the horror of the original performer, and in spite of Dobbin's good-natured entreaties to him to have mercy.
"Why should I spare him ?" Osborne said to his friend's remonstrances, when they quitted the invalid, leaving him under the hands of Doctor Gollop.

"What the deuce right has he to give himself his patronizing airs, and make fools of us at Vauxhall?
Who's this little schoolgirl that is ogling and making love to him?
Hang it, the family's low enough already, without HER.

A governess is all very well, but I'd rather have a lady for my sister-in-law.

I'm a liberal man; but I've proper pride, and know my own station: let her know hers.

And I'll take down that great hectoring Nabob, and prevent him from being made a greater fool than he is.