What was more, she induced him to be an accomplice in deception.

For though the lieutenant protested that he washed his hands of it, and that it was a fraud and a snare, he certainly did not avow the condition of his wife's parents to Mr.Andrew, but alluded to them in passing as 'the country people.' He supposed 'the country people' must be asked, he said.

The brewer offered to go down to them.

But the lieutenant drew an unpleasant picture of the country people, and his wife became so grave at the proposal, that Mr.Andrew said he wanted to marry the lady and not the 'country people,' and if she would have him, there he was.

There he was, behaving with a particular and sagacious kindness to the raw lieutenant since Harriet's arrival.