It's not very hard for you to be sorry." Not dismayed, not even surprised by this speech, Lawrence was about to reply, but she struck in, "No, no; I don't want to hear it.

I've been cheated, and I'll have my revenge.

As for you, my respected uncle, you have played your cards better." He was surprised and perplexed.
"Why, Fanny, what cards?
What do you mean ?" "I mean that an old fox is a sly fox," said she, with the hissing sneer.
Lawrence looked at her in amazement.
"I mean that sly old foxes who have lined their own nests can afford to pity a young one who gets a silver shoe-buckle," hissed Fanny, with bitter malignity.

"If Alfred Dinks were not a hopeless fool, he'd break the will.

Better wills than this have been broken by good lawyers before now.