"I know very well, and am very sorry that it should be so.

And I cannot but feel for the rascal because the dishonest effort was made on behalf of his own son." "Why was it necessary ?" said Dolly, with sparks flying from her eye.
"Throughout from the beginning he has been bad.

Why was the woman not his wife ?" "Ah! why, indeed.

But had his sin consisted only in that, I should not have dreamed of refusing my assistance as a family lawyer.

All that would have gone for nothing then." "When evil creeps in," said Dolly, sententiously, "you cannot put it right afterward." "Never mind about that.