"If you had a husband to call you _his_ Tyrant, it would be a thousand times better.

I declare, I always think, when we pray for 'all who are destitute and oppressed,' it means the old maids.

I'm sure the 'fatherless children and widows' are thought of, and why not the poor, forlorn, unmarried women?
Indeed, I think Archibald is almost selfish to keep you at home as he does.

My girls would never have been settled if I had let them stay in Ashurst.

I've a great mind to tell your father he isn't doing his duty.