How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Book.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
"I told her she might marry, but that I should take no interest in it, and should not bother you about it either."
"It wouldn't have been bothering me. Mother, you did wrong." (2.8.59)
Mrs. Yeobright's pride and stubborn nature really shine through here, and it's interesting to note Clym's speaking style. He starts off speaking fairly colloquially and using incorrect grammar, but he then takes on a very blunt and judgmental sentence, which shifts his tone.
Quote #5
"She is a good girl."
"So you think. A Corfu bandmaster's daughter! What has her life been! Her surname is not even her true one."
"She is Captain Vye's granddaughter, and her father merely took her mother's name. And she is a lady by instinct." (3.5.14-17)
Themes of society and family collide again as Mrs. Yeobright voices her objections to Eustacia, all of which mainly revolve around her family connections, or lack thereof. Eustacia's somewhat shady past is a key detail here. The highly different ways Eustacia's background is characterized by Clym and his mother really illustrates the conflict between mother and son.
Quote #6
"You ought to have better opinions of me – I feared you were against me from the first!" exclaimed Eustacia.
"No. I was simply for Clym," replied Mrs. Yeobright, with too much emphasis in her earnestness. "It is the instinct of every one to look after their own." (4.1.24-5)
The tiny details here help to illustrate how this argument gets so vicious – Mrs. Yeobright's tone uses too much "emphasis" since she feels so strongly on the subject. But it comes across as prejudice against Eustacia and not just support for her dear Clym. Also, Mrs. Yeobright's parting shot is a great sum-up of the themes of family in this novel, but it also suggests an important question: how do characters define family and decide who "their own" is?