Well, she is not a bad bargain! As for Captain De Stancy, he'll fret his gizzard green.' 'He's the man she ought to ha' married,' declared the farmer in broadcloth.

'As the world goes she ought to have been Lady De Stancy.
She gave up her chapel-going, and you might have thought she would have given up her first young man: but she stuck to him, though by all accounts he would soon have been interested in another party.' ''Tis woman's nature to be false except to a man, and man's nature to be true except to a woman,' said the landlord of Sleeping-Green.

'However, all's well that ends well, and I have something else to think of than new-married couples;' saying which the speaker moved off, and the others returned to their seats, the young pair who had been their theme vanishing through the hotel into some private paradise to rest and dine.
By this time their arrival had become known, and a crowd soon gathered outside, acquiring audacity with continuance there.

Raising a hurrah, the group would not leave till Somerset had showed himself on the balcony above; and then declined to go away till Paula also had appeared; when, remarking that her husband seemed a quiet young man enough, and would make a very good borough member when their present one misbehaved himself, the assemblage good-humouredly dispersed.
Among those whose ears had been reached by the hurrahs of these idlers was a man in silence and solitude, far out of the town.

He was leaning over a gate that divided two meads in a watery level between Stancy Castle and Markton.