He should a been wed afore, to a widow lady, but they couldn't agree over the money: she'd a rare long purse, and Mr.Hargrave wanted it all to hisself; but she wouldn't let it go, and so then they fell out.

This one isn't quite as rich, nor as handsome either, but she hasn't been married before.

She's very plain, they say, and getting on to forty or past, and so, you know, if she didn't jump at this hopportunity, she thought she'd never get a better.

I guess she thought such a handsome young husband was worth all 'at ever she had, and he might take it and welcome, but I lay she'll rue her bargain afore long.

They say she begins already to see 'at he isn't not altogether that nice, generous, perlite, delightful gentleman 'at she thought him afore marriage--he begins a being careless and masterful already.