But you can't make a fool of me, Mrs.Drake.Marry the farmer, and I'll give you a wedding present; that is all I can do for any other man's sweetheart.

I have got my own family to provide for, and it is all I can contrive to make both ends meet." He was cold and inflexible to her prayers.

Then she tried threats.

He laughed at them.

Said he, "The time is gone by for that: if you wanted to sue me for breach of promise, you should have done it at once; not waited eighteen months and taken another sweetheart first.