appellant jurisdiction could be disputed.

"Your ladyship's taller than Miss Portman by half ahead," said Marriott,
"and to be sure will best become tragedy with this long train; besides, I
had settled all the rest of your ladyship's dress. Tragedy, they say, is
always tall; and, no offence, your ladyship's taller than Miss Portman by
half a head."

"For head read inch," said Lady Delacour, "if you please."

"When things are settled, one can't bear to have them unsettled--but your
ladyship must have your own way, to be sure--I'll say no more," cried she,
throwing down the dresses.

"Stay, Marriott," said Lady Delacour, and she placed herself between the
angry waiting-maid and the door.

"Why will you, who are the best creature in the world, put yourself into
these _furies_ about nothing? Have patience with us, and you shall be
satisfied."

"That's another affair," said Marriott.

"Miss Portman," continued her ladyship, "don't talk of not having spirits,
you that are all life!--What say you, Belinda?--O yes, you must be the
comic muse; and I, it seems, must be tragedy, because Marriott has a
passion for seeing me 'come sweeping by.' And because Marriott must have
her own way in every thing--she rules me with a rod of iron, my dear, so
tragedy I needs must be.--_Marriott knows her power_."