 the side of all these rushing
impulses; she was borne blindly on an exhaustless flux of words. After vain
attempts to make herself heard, Alice turned away and sat sullenly waiting for
the outburst to spend itself. Herself comparatively unaffected by the feelings
strongest in her mother, this ear-afflicting clamour altogether checked her
sympathy, and in a great measure overcame those personal reasons which had made
her annoyed with Richard. She found herself taking his side, even knew something
of his impatience with Emma and her sorrows. When it came to rebukes and charges
against herself her impatience grew active. She stood up again and endeavoured
to make herself heard.
    »What's the good of going on like this, mother? Just because you're angry,
that's no reason you should call us all the names you can turn your tongue to.
It's over and done with, and there's an end of it. I don't know what you mean
about disgracing you; I think you might wait till the time comes. I don't see
what I've done as you can complain of.«
    »No, of course you don't,« pursued her mother bitterly. »It's the money as
prevents you from seeing it. Them as was good enough for you before you haven't
a word to say to now; a man as works honestly for his living you make no account
of. Well, well, you must go your own way -«
    »What is it you want, mother? You don't expect me to look no higher than
when I hadn't a penny but what I worked for? I've no patience with you. You
ought to be glad -«
    »You haven't no patience, of course you haven't. And I'm to be glad when a
son of mine does things as he deserves to be sent to prison for! I don't
understand that kind o' gladness. But mind what I say; do what you like with
your money, I'll have no more part in it. If I had as much as ten shillings a
week of my own, I'd go and live by myself, and leave you to take your own way.
But I tell you what I can do, and what I will. I'll have no more servants
a-waitin' on me; I wasn't never used to it, and I'm too old to begin. I go to my
own bedroom upstairs
