But there was no help for it; and we were obliged to bring her: for, as my mother said, if we offended her, her fortune would go out of our family; and were we two young people not likely to want it?
So we came to town rather dismally in the carriage, posting the whole way; for the carriage must be brought, and a person of my aunt's rank in life could not travel by the stage.

And I had to pay 14_l_.

for the posters, which pretty nearly exhausted all my little hoard of cash.
First we went into lodgings,--into three sets in three weeks.

We quarrelled with the first landlady, because my aunt vowed that she cut a slice off the leg of mutton which was served for our dinner; from the second lodgings we went because aunt vowed the maid would steal the candles; from the third we went because Aunt Hoggarty came down to breakfast the morning after our arrival with her face shockingly swelled and bitten by--never mind what.

To cut a long tale short, I was half mad with the continual choppings and changings, and the long stories and scoldings of my aunt.