He was, he said, unaccustomed to such things, and hoped that he might be excused.
Therefore, from the Folking side there was no one but John Caldigate himself and John Jones.

Of the Babingtons, of course, there was not one.
As long as there was a possibility of success Mrs.Babington had kept up her remonstrances;--but when there was no longer a possibility she announced that there was to be an everlasting quarrel between the houses.

Babington and Folking were for the future to know nothing of each other.

Caldigate had hoped that though the ladies would for a time be unforgiving, his uncle and his male cousins would not take up the quarrel.

But aunt Polly was too strong for that; and he was declared to be a viper who had been warmed in all their bosoms and had then stung them all round.