It was not pleasant for her to hear what Sir Charles Poddy had said about the tobacco and brandy of the man she was just going to marry.

She would sooner have heard of his riding sixty miles a day, or dancing all night, as she might have heard had she been contented to take Harry Clavering.

But she had made her selection with her eyes open, and was not disposed to quarrel with her bargain, because that which she had bought was no better than the article which she had known it to be when she was making her purchase.
Nor was she even angry with her sister.

"I will do the best I can, Hermy; you may be sure of that.

But there are some things which it is useless to talk about." "But it was as well you should know what Sir Charles said." "I know quite enough of what he says, Hermy--quite as much, I dare say, as you do.