I cannot forget how he took me in by the 'Hop-and-go-constant' affair.

But then he's a good Protestant--not that I mean he has a single spark of religion in his nondescript carcass; but in those times it's not canting and psalm-singing we want, but good political Protestantism, that will enable us to maintain our ascendancy by other means than praying.

Curse the hound that keeps him?
Is this a day for him to be late on?
and it now half past ten o'clock; however, he must come soon; but, upon my honor, I dread what will happen when he does.

A scene there will be no doubt of it; however, we must only struggle through it as well as we can.

I'll go and see Helen, and try to reconcile her to this chap, or, at all events, to let her know at once that, be the consequences what they may, she must marry him, if I were myself to hold her at the altar." When he had concluded this soliloquy, Ellen Connor, without whose society Helen could now scarcely live, and who, on this account, had not been discharged after her elopement, she, we say, entered the room, her eye resolute with determination, and sparkling with a feeling which evinced an indignant sense of his cruelty in enforcing this odious match.