Come, don't be cast down.

I'll pay you when I come to my property, in three weeks' time; but law expenses must be paid, and the money I must have.' Hereupon Mrs.Mack clasped her hands together in an agony, and 'set up the pipes.' M.M.was like to lose patience, and when she did she looked most feloniously, and in a way that made poor soft Mrs.Mack quiver.
''Tis but twenty pounds, woman,' she said, sternly.
'Hub-bub-bub-boo-hoo-hoo,' blubbered the fat and miserable Mrs.
Macnamara.

'It will be all about--I may as well tell it myself.

I'm ruined! My Venetian lace--my watch--the brocade not made up.

It won't do.