Confound me, but I know it would teach her patience, at all events.

What is the matter ?" "My dear Miss Folliard," said the clergyman, "if you will have the goodness to withdraw, I will explain this shocking business to your father." "Shocking business! Why, in God's name, Brown, what has happened?
And why is my daughter in tears, I ask again ?" Helen now left the drawing-rooom, and Mr.Brown replied: "Sir, a circumstance which, for baseness and diabolical iniquity, is unparalleled in civilized society.

I could not pollute your daughter's ears by reciting it in her presence, and besides she is already aware of it." "Ay, but what is it?
Confound you, don't keep me on tenter hooks." "I shall not do so long, my dear friend.

Who do you imagine your daughter's maid--I mean that female attendant upon your pure-minded and virtuous child--is ?" "Faith, go ask Sir Robert Whitecraft.

It was he who recommended her; for, on hearing that the maid she had, Ellen Connor, was a Papist, he said he felt uneasy lest she might prevail on my daughter to turn Catholic, and marry Reilly." "But do you not know who the young woman that is about your daughter's person is?
You are, however, a father who loves your child, and I need not ask such a question.