You forget all the unpleasant circumstances that have occurred between the families.

You forget everything but your anxiety for the recovery of poor, dear Alice." "But," replied his mother, "I do not wish to go.

Why should I go to express a sympathy which I do not feel?
Her death is only a judicial punishment on them for having inveigled your silly old uncle to leave them the property which would have otherwise come to you as the natural heir." "Mother," said her dutiful son, "you have a nose, and beyond that nose you never yet have been able to look with anything like perspicuity.

If you don't visit them, your good-natured noodle of a husband will, and perhaps the result of that visit may cut us out of the property forever.
At breakfast this morning you will propose the visit, which, mark you, is to be made in the name and on behalf of all the family.

You, consequently, being the deputation on this occasion, both your husband and Maria will not feel themselves called upon to see them.