William Makepeace Thackeray: Vanity Fair

11. XI: Arcadian Simplicity (continued)

"He be a bad'n, sure enough," Mr. Horrocks remarked; "and his man Flethers is wuss, and have made such a row in the housekeeper's room about the dinners and hale, as no lord would make--but I think Miss Sharp's a match for'n, Sir Pitt," he added, after a pause.

And so, in truth, she was--for father and son too.