You can't mean Captain Bertram?
Impossible." "I do mean Captain Bertram, doctor.

No more and no less.

And I'll thank you not again to mention the name of that siren, Beatrice, in my presence.

Now if you'll come upstairs, I'll show you the poor blighted child." Mrs.Bell had insisted on Matty's staying in bed.

After the first awful shock of Mrs.Butler's news had subsided, she had made up her mind that the only _role_ left to her daughter was that of the dying martyr.
All the town should know that Beatrice had robbed her friend, and that this young and innocent friend was now at death's door.
Alice and Sophy were both in the room with their sister, and they were expatiating very loudly on what they considered "ma's cruelty." "You know perfectly, Matty, that he never cared for you," remarked the candid Sophy.