If St.George had been painted purple he felt sure that she would have acted quite the same.
Personality meant nothing to her.
"Now this distressing matter, Mr.St.George," began Mrs.Hastings, "of this frightful mulatto woman.

I didn't see her myself--no, I had stopped in on the first floor to visit my lawyer's wife who was ill with neuralgia, and I didn't see the creature.

If I had been with my niece I dare say it wouldn't have occurred.

That's what I always say to my niece.

I always say, 'Olivia, nothing _need_ occur to vex one.
It always happens because of pure heedlessness.' Not that I accuse my own niece of heedlessness in this particular.