about seven
to one
`` Not any mortal thing . '' `` What is it then ? '' `` Hugh dear , did it never strike you that you are a very large family ? And that when it comes down on me it 's in the proportion of about seven to one ? '' `` Whoever _ does _ come down on you ? '' `` John , '' said she , `` was with me for two hours yesterday . '' Brodrick lent his ear as to a very genuine grievance .