She was always scoring down grievances in the present by looking back on the past.

With her, it was all repining and retrospect.

When her poor father, the earl, was alive, she was never slighted in this way.

Had her dear papa but now existed, Mistress So-and-So would have returned her call, and not insulted her by her palpable neglect.

It was very Christian-like and charitable to say otherwise; but _she_ knew better: it was on account of her being poor, and living in a small house.