3/19 He is coarse, and vulgar, and mean. His daughter Kate married his clerk, young Tom Witchet--not a cent, you know, but five hundred dollars salary. 'Twas against the old man's will, and he shut his door, and his purse, and his heart. He turned Witchet away; told his daughter that she might lie in the bed she had made for herself; told Witchet that he was a rotten young swindler, and that, as he had married his daughter for her money, he'd be d----d if he wouldn't be up with him, and deuce of a cent should they get from him. They live I don't know where, nor how. |