"A fine house you're keeping." "Why don't you come and join us, Aunt Letty ?" he replied.

"It would be just the thing for you." "God forbid!" said the old maid, turning up her eyes to heaven.
"Oh, you might do worse, you know.

With us you'd only drink and play cards, and perhaps hear a little strong language now and again.
But what's that to slander, and calumny, and bearing false witness against one's neighbour ?" and so saying he ended that interview--not in a manner to ingratiate himself with his relative, Miss Letty Fitzgerald.
After that, in the supper-room, more than one wag of a fellow had congratulated him on his success with the widow.

"She's got some sort of a jointure, I suppose," said one.

"She's very young-looking, certainly, to be the mother of that girl," declared another.