"I ask nothing from you but that we should part not in anger. I have the pride of my family on some points, though not on all. I married a painter's daughter, and am not ashamed of the union."
"No, run me through the body if I am!" Rawdon ejaculated.
"You old booby," Rebecca said, pinching his ear and looking over to see that he made no mistakes in spelling--"beseech is not spelt with an a, and earliest is." So he altered these words, bowing to the superior knowledge of his little Missis.

"I ask only that we should not part in anger. I have the pride of my family on some points, though not all. I married a painter's daughter, and am not ashamed of the union."
"No, run me through if I am!" Rawdon cried.
"You old booby," Rebecca said, pinching his ear and looking over his work. "Beseech is not spelt with an a, and earliest is." So he altered these words, bowing to her superior knowledge.
