I did not like their way of speaking.

They seemed vulgar to me." I hardly knew why I answered him.

Perhaps he compelled me.

When I had answered he turned round and looked at me with an uproarious delight in his face.
"If Lady Meg could only hear you! Lord! lord!" he said, with infinite gusto.

"The daughter of a hundred earls! And Miss Moxon, just as high born and just as fast! How amazed they would be.