We hold together as we have done ever since we were little.

And I came this evening to ask for her, and to ask if we could have the benefit of your leave and consent.

For with my credentials and good wages, and when I never drink and--" Silla now acted with the courage of despair; she pushed Nikolai so that they all three--Mrs.Holman yielding half involuntarily--came through the gate and from thence into the room where the battle was then fought.
While Silla sat with her hands before her face on a chair in the dark and Nikolai, with quiet persistency continued to plead his case, and make as manifest as possible how he now had a prospect of becoming foreman and could provide for Silla, Mrs.Holman assumed a mightily offended, repellant attitude.

She employed her whole power; she bridled, and she was wrathful, and she exhibited the most extreme astonishment.
It almost looked as if he thought he could really take her daughter from her, whether she said yes or no.

What was there left for an elderly woman to live on, when her husband was dead, and her daughter who could keep her, refused, because she thought of marrying a smith who could not so much as show that he had a wedded father?
She was on the point of rising in defence to the death of her maternal rights, when a light suddenly dawned upon her.