She would have resented the imputation that she reduced her good-looking, well-clothed, well-fed, well-mounted "Charley" to a state of vassalage against which any man of spirit would have rebelled.

He knew that he could have whatever it was within her power to bestow, to the half of her kingdom.

Her complaints of his prodigality meant as little as her menace of retrenchment, and nobody comprehended this better than he.

The owner of the money-bags is entitled by popular verdict to his or her jest.

Her pretended railing was "clear fun." The deeper and juster significance of the much derided clause of the marriage vow is the second I have offered.