I will persuade him to exert his influence--I will go down on my knees to him--I will never leave him till I have won him over to my side--I will take Kitty with me; he shall see us both, and pity us, and help us!" "Hopeless.

Quite hopeless, Mrs.Linley." "Oh, don't say that!" "My dear lady, my poor dear lady, I must say it.

The man you are talking of is the last man in the world to be influenced as you suppose.

He is notoriously a lawyer, and nothing but a lawyer.

If you tried to move him to pity you, he would say, 'Madam, I am doing my duty to my client'; and he would ring his bell and have you shown out.