How do you know that the story is true?
You only have it from Mrs.Leith Fairfax's letter; and she is perhaps the greatest liar in the world." "Oh, Nelly, you ought not to talk so strongly about people.

She would never venture to tell me a made-up tale about Marmaduke." "In my opinion, she would tell anybody anything for the sake of using her tongue or pen." "It is so hard to know what to do.

There was nobody whom I could trust, was there?
Jasper has always been against Marmaduke; and Constance, of course, was out of the question.

There was Auntie, but I did not like to tell her." "Because she is an evil-minded old Jezebel, whom no nice woman would talk to on such a subject," said Elinor, giving the bed a kick with her heel.
"Hush, Nelly.

I am always in terror lest you should say something like that before other people, out of sheer habit." "Never fear.