‘Do!’ Georgiana was now going to speak out plainly.  ’Make him understand that we are not going to be sat upon like that.  I’ll do something, if that’s going to be the way of it.  If he treats me like that I’ll run off with the first man that will take me, let him be who it may.’

‘Don’t talk like that, Georgiana, unless you wish to kill me.’

’I’ll break his heart for him.  He does not care about us not the least whether we are happy or miserable; but he cares very much about the family name.  I’ll tell him that I’m not going to be a slave.  I’ll marry a London tradesman before I’ll...