It was very necessary that she should do so, if the family was to be kept on its legs at all.
"I don't think any good can come from discussing what my uncle does with the money." This was Dolly's first speech.

"If he is to have it, let him have it, but let him have as little as possible." "I never heard anybody so cross as you always are to papa," said Sophy.
"Your cousin Dorothy is very fortunate," said Mrs.Carroll.

"She does not know what it is to want for anything." "She never spends anything--on herself," said her father.

"It is Dolly's only fault that she won't." "Because she has it all done for her," said Amelia.
Dolly had gone back to her book, and disdained to make any farther reply.

Her father felt that quite enough had been said about it, and was prepared to give the twenty pounds, under the idea that he might be thought to have made a stout fight upon the subject.