Haven't I brought you up to be respectable? And how can you keep it up without my money and my influence and Lizzie's friends?

要是没有我的钱、没有我的支持、没有利慈的朋友帮忙，你这上等人的身份怎么保得住？

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Otherwise, the menfolk left their respectable women at home and headed off for the festival with fathers, brothers, sons, friends, neighbors and (male) lovers.

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