It isn't fair." "Rosalind, you use expressions which, to anyone but your father, would be positively offensive.

Rest assured that I do not require my own child to correct me." "Oh, of course, dear father, I don't mean that, but--" "But it sounds extremely as if you did mean it." "I do hope you won't ask any one here," said she doggedly.
"Rosalind, you offend me.

You are incapable, as I have told you before, of appreciating your duty either to me or yourself.

Oblige me by going." "Papa, dear, I am only anxious--" "Go!" said the Captain brusquely.
She obeyed.

Mr Armstrong, as he met her in the hall and marked the bright colour in her cheeks and the light in her eyes, thought to himself how uncommonly well she was looking this morning.