"Father, I really do not see why at my age I should be hounded out
of the house like this every morning."

"You are hounded out, as you elegantly express it, because morning
after morning, owing to your disgustingly slothful habits, you
clash with me, sir. My breakfast is delayed because you clash with
me, and the house is delayed because you clash with me, and the
whole parish is delayed because you clash with me."

"Perhaps you're not aware that Robert clashes with me."

"Dash Robert! Are you going or are you not going?"

He goes.

"Bring back the paper."

He brings it back.

Wonderful father!

Rosalie's father gives a tug at the bell cord that would have
dislocated the neck of a horse. The cord comes away in his hand.
He hurls it across the room.

Glorious father!

There was a most frightful storm one night and Rosalie, in Anna's
bed with Flora crowded in also and Hilda shivering in her nightgown