"If you think it proper, I'm sure I can't object," said Amelia.
"She won't approve, I'm sure," said Sophie.
"Her young man has come forward and spoken," said Mr. Carroll.
"And quite in a proper spirit," said Amelia.
"Of course," said Mrs. Carroll, "we are not to expect too much. Though we are respectable in birth, and all that, we are poor. Mr. Carroll has got nothing to give her."
"I've been the most unfortunate man in the world," said Mr. Carroll.
"We won't talk about that now," continued Mrs. Carroll. "Here we are without anything."
"You have decent blood," said Dolly; "at any rate on one side,"—for she did not believe in the Carrolls.
"On both,—on both," said Mr. Carroll, rising up, and putting his hand upon his heart. "I can boast of royal blood among my ancestors."
"But here we are without anything," said Mrs. Carroll again. "Mr. Juniper is a most respectable man."