If you have no space in which to put two youthful fellow-creatures, however eminently respectable, which I do not doubt, where are those youthful fellow-creatures to be accommodated?
I carry it no further than that.
And solely looking at it,' said her husband, making the stipulation at once in a conciliatory, complimentary, and argumentative tone--'as I am sure you will agree, my love--from a fellow-creature point of view, my dear.' 'I have nothing more to say,' returned Mrs Wilfer, with a meek renunciatory action of her gloves.

'It is as you think, R.W.; not as I do.' Here, the huffing of Miss Bella and the loss of three of her men at a swoop, aggravated by the coronation of an opponent, led to that young lady's jerking the draught-board and pieces off the table: which her sister went down on her knees to pick up.
'Poor Bella!' said Mrs Wilfer.
'And poor Lavinia, perhaps, my dear ?' suggested R.W.
'Pardon me,' said Mrs Wilfer, 'no!' It was one of the worthy woman's specialities that she had an amazing power of gratifying her splenetic or worldly-minded humours by extolling her own family: which she thus proceeded, in the present case, to do.
'No, R.W.Lavinia has not known the trial that Bella has known.

The trial that your daughter Bella has undergone, is, perhaps, without a parallel, and has been borne, I will say, Nobly.

When you see your daughter Bella in her black dress, which she alone of all the family wears, and when you remember the circumstances which have led to her wearing it, and when you know how those circumstances have been sustained, then, R.W., lay your head upon your pillow and say, "Poor Lavinia!"' Here, Miss Lavinia, from her kneeling situation under the table, put in that she didn't want to be 'poored by pa', or anybody else.
'I am sure you do not, my dear,' returned her mother, 'for you have a fine brave spirit.

And your sister Cecilia has a fine brave spirit of another kind, a spirit of pure devotion, a beau-ti-ful spirit! The self-sacrifice of Cecilia reveals a pure and womanly character, very seldom equalled, never surpassed.