She calmed herself, however, and assumed a manner that was cool and cuttingly ironical.
"Wouldn't you, indeed ?" she replied; "dear me! I have a right to be proud of that; and so you'd be mane enough to marry into a family blackened by disgrace.

I thought you had some decent pride, James." "But you have done nothing wrong, Dora," he replied; "'you're free from any blame of that kind." "I have done nothing wrong, haven't I ?" she returned.

"Ay, a thousand things--for, thank God, I'm not infallible like your sister.

Haven't I supported my brother in every thing he did?
and I tell you that if I had been in his place I'd just 'a' done what he did.

What do you think o' me now ?" "Why, that every word you say, and every lively look--ay, or angry if you like--that you give--makes me love you more and more.