I am as respectable as you are, if you come to that.

My name is Hoighty.

My parents are in business, and my mamma has seen better days, and mixed in the best of company." There Miss Hoighty lifted her handkerchief again to her face, and burst modestly into tears behind it.
It was certainly hard to hold her responsible for what had happened.
I answered as kindly as I could, and I attempted to speak to Major Fitz-David in her defense.

He knew what terrible anxieties were oppressing me at that moment; and, considerately refusing to hear a word, he took the task of consoling his young prima donna entirely on himself.

What he said to her I neither heard nor cared to hear: he spoke in a whisper.