The three climbed out of that coach more dead than alive; but they uttered no complaints; they had had their fun; and in accidents of this kind the poor driver generally gets the worst of it.
Mrs.Moon at any rate found consolation in disaster by steadily ignoring its most humiliating features.

Secure in the new majesty of her widowhood, she faced her nieces with an unflinching air and demanded of them eternal belief in the wisdom and rectitude of their uncle Tollington.

She hoped that they would never forget him, never forget what he had to bear, never forget all he had done for them.

Her attitude reduced Juliana to tears; in Louisa it roused the instinct of revolt, and Louisa was for separating from Mrs.Moon.It was then, in her first difference from Louisa, that Miss Quincey's tender and foolish little face acquired its strangely persistent air.

Hitherto the elder had served the younger; now she took her stand.