text: " "Why if people would only take the trouble to enquire into the actual facts of any part of their behaviour and not take their own account of it--the boastful falsehoods of the nephew the malicious insinuations of the aunt their disregard of truth in serious affairs as well as in trifles their selfishness narrow-mindedness and want of charity--they would hesitate before they countenanced such characters in spite of the dinners they occasionally give and the position they hold