"A man who will do nothing else must do harm."
"Of course he must. But what can he do now? And the children! I can see—of course I know that they are not all that they ought to be. But with six of them, and nobody but myself, how can I do it all? And they are his children as well as mine." Dolly's heart was filled with pity as she heard this, which she knew to be so true! "In answering you they have uppish, bad ways. They don't like to submit to one so near their own age."
"Not a word that has come from the mouth of one of them addressed to myself has ever done them any harm with my father. That is what you mean?"
"No,—but with yourself."
"I do not take anger—against them—out of the room with me."
"Now, about Mr. Juniper."
"The question is one much too big for me. Am I to tell my father?"
"I was thinking that—if you would do so!"
"I cannot tell him that he ought to find five hundred pounds for Mr. Juniper."
"Perhaps four would do."