I am going to have the oak walls polished, in order to bring out the carvings; and I think we will choose green and white for the carpets and curtains.

The present furniture is dreadfully old-fashioned, and horribly full of old memories." "Well, then, I shall give mother to understand that we expect to make these changes very soon." "Depend upon it, the sooner your mother and Charlotte go to their own house, the better for all parties.

For, if we do not insist upon it, they will stay and stay, until that Latrigg young man has his house finished.

Then Charlotte will expect to be married from here, and we shall have all the trouble and expense of the affair.

Oh, I tell you, Sophia, I see through the whole plan! But reckoning without me, and reckoning with me, are different things." This conversation took place after a most unpleasant lunch.