"Confound you! That's what comes of letting even such a stupid old beggar as you learn to read one's thoughts.

It's mighty ungrateful of you to use them against me.Yes.I did ask to have you included in the party.

But you needn't put your back up, Mr.Unbendable, and think you were forced on them.

Mr.Pierce gave me _carte blanche_, and if it hadn't been you, it would have been some other donkey." "But Mrs.Pierce ?" queried Peter.
"Oh," explained Watts, "of course Mrs.Pierce wrote the letter.

I couldn't do it in my name, and so Mr.Pierce told her to do it.