“What?
“You won’t give half the money?
“Very well, Mr. Caudle; I don’t care: let the children go in rags; let them stop from church, and grow up like heathens and cannibals, and then you’ll save your money, and, I suppose, be satisfied.
“You gave me twenty pounds five months ago?
“What’s five months ago to do with now? Besides, what I have had is nothing to do with it.
“What do you say?
“Ten pounds are enough?
“Yes, just like you men; you think things cost nothing for women; but you don’t care how much you lay out upon yourselves.
“They only want bonnets and frocks?
“How do you know what they want? How should a man know anything at all about it? And you won’t give more than ten pounds? Very well. Then you may go shopping with it yourself, and see what you’ll make of it. I’ll have none of your ten pounds, I can tell you. No, sir, - no; you have no cause to say that.