With much gravity he stooped and picked it up; and as he did so, heard Mrs.Wesley addressing him.
"And the curious part of it is," she was saying calmly, "that my brother-in-law means all this in kindness!" "No, I don't," snapped Matthew; and in the next breath, "well, yes, I do then.

Susanna, I beg your pardon, but you'd provoke a saint." He dropped into his chair.

"You know well enough that if I lose my temper, 'tis for your sake and the girls'." "I know," she said softly, covering his hand with hers.

"But you must e'en let us go our feckless way.

Sir,"-- she looked up-- "must this decision be made to-night ?" "Not at all, ma'am, not at all.