Such friendships are subject to violent vicissitudes, and theirs had been interrupted by a difference of opinion, of which the lady had made a note with a brass candlestick over his eye.

Dirty Davy's expressive feature still showed the green and yellow tints of convalescence.

But there are few philosophers who forgive so frankly as a thorough scoundrel, when it is his interest to kiss and be friends.

The candlestick was not more innocent of all unpleasant feeling upon the subject than at that moment was Dirty Davy.
Dirty Davy had brought with him his chief clerk, who was a facetious personage, and boozy, and on the confidential footing of a common rascality with his master, who, after the fashion of Harry V.in his nonage, condescended in his frolics and his cups to men of low estate; and Mary Matchwell, though fierce and deep enough, was not averse on occasion, to partake of a bowl of punch in sardonic riot, with such agreeable company.
Charles Nutter's unexpected coming to life no more affected Mary Matchwell's claim than his supposed death did her spirits.

Widow or wife, she was resolved to make good her position, and the only thing she seriously dreaded was that an intelligent jury, an eminent judge, and an adroit hangman, might remove him prematurely from the sphere of his conjugal duties, and forfeit his worldly goods to the crown.
Next morning, however, a writ or a process of some sort, from which great things were expected, was to issue from the court in which her rights were being vindicated.