"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.

"I DON'T WANT TO DRESS THE CHILDREN UP LIKE COUNTESSES?

"You often fling that in my teeth, you do: but you know it's false,
Caudle; you know it. I only want to give 'em proper notions of
themselves: and what, indeed, CAN the poor things think when they
see the Briggs's, and the Browns, and the Smiths--and their fathers
don't make the money you do, Caudle--when they see them as fine as
tulips? Why, they must think themselves nobody; and to think
yourself nobody--depend upon it, Caudle,--isn't the way to make the
world think anything of you.

"What do you say?

"WHERE DID I PICK UP THAT?

"Where do you think? I know a great deal more than you suppose--yes;
though you don't give me credit for it. Husbands seldom do.
However, the twenty pounds I WILL have, if I've any--or not a
farthing. No, sir, no.

"I DON'T WANT TO DRESS UP THE CHILDREN LIKE PEACOCKS AND PARROTS!