Do you beat me, Bella?

Do you call this beating you? only tapping you shoulder thus, said she;
tapping again more gently--This is what we expected it would come to--You
want to be independent--My father has lived too long for you!--

I was going to speak with vehemence; but she put her handkerchief before
my mouth, very rudely--You have done enough with your pen, mean listener,
as you are!--But know that neither your independent scheme, nor any of
your visiting ones, will be granted you. Take your course, perverse one!
Call in your rake to help you to an independence upon your parents, and a
dependence upon him!--Do so!--Prepare this moment--resolve what you will
take with you--to-morrow you go--depend upon it to-morrow you go!--No
longer shall you stay here, watching and creeping about to hearken to
what people say--'Tis determined, child!--You go to-morrow--my brother
would have come up to tell you so; but I persuaded him to the contrary--
for I know not what had become of you, if he had--Such a letter! such an
insolent, such a conceited challenger!--O thou vain creature! But
prepare yourself, I say--to-morrow you go--my brother will accept of your
bold challenge; but it must be personal; and at my uncle Antony's--or
perhaps at Mr. Solmes's--

Thus she ran on, almost foaming with passion; till, quite out of
patience, I said, No more of your violence, Bella--Had I known in what
way you designed to come up, you should not have found my chamber-door
open--talk to your servant in this manner. Unlike you, as I bless God I
am, I am nevertheless your sister--and let me tell you, that I won't go
to-morrow, nor next day, nor next day to that--except I am dragged away
by violence.