My desire is to have things settled promptly, because your friend Jack has been to set the banns up; and the Church is more speedy in such matters than the law.

Now the sooner you are off, the better." Jordas, in his steady but by no means stupid way, considered at his leisure what such things could mean.

He knew all the property, and the many little holdings, as well as, and perhaps a great deal better than, if they had happened to be his own.

But he never had known such a hurry made before, or such a special interest shown about the letting of any tenement, of perhaps tenfold the value.

However, he said, like a sensible man (and therefore to himself only), that the ways of women are beyond compute, and must be suitably carried out, without any contradiction..