company when he came in; or refused to enter into it when I found he
would stay any time.

My brother heard me out with such a kind of impatience as shewed he
was resolved to be dissatisfied with me, say what I would. The rest,
as the event has proved, behaved as if they would have been satisfied,
had they not further points to carry by intimidating me. All this
made it evident, as I mentioned above, that they themselves expected
not my voluntary compliance; and was a tacit confession of the
disagreeableness of the person they had to propose.

I was no sooner silent than my brother swore, although in my father's
presence, (swore, unchecked either by eye or countenance,) That for
his part, he would never be reconciled to that libertine: and that he
would renounce me for a sister, if I encouraged the addresses of a man
so obnoxious to them all.

A man who had like to have been my brother's murderer, my sister said,
with a face even bursting with restraint of passion.

The poor Bella has, you know, a plump high-fed face, if I may be
allowed the expression. You, I know, will forgive me for this liberty
of speech sooner than I can forgive myself: Yet how can one be such a
reptile as not to turn when trampled upon!

My father, with vehemence both of action and voice [my father has, you
know, a terrible voice when he is angry] told me that I had met with
too much indulgence in being allowed to refuse this gentleman, and the
other gentleman,; and it was now his turn to be obeyed!