The case of Roundhand v.

Tidd is still in the memory of the public; nor can I ever understand how Bill Tidd, so poetic as he was, could ever take on with such a fat, odious, vulgar woman as Mrs.R., who was old enough to be his mother.
As soon as we were in prosperity, Mr.and Mrs.Grimes Wapshot made overtures to be reconciled to us; and Mr.Wapshot laid bare to me all the baseness of Mr.Smithers's conduct in the Brough transaction.

Smithers had also endeavoured to pay his court to me, once when I went down to Somersetshire; but I cut his pretensions short, as I have shown.

"He it was," said Mr.Wapshot, "who induced Mrs.Grimes (Mrs.Hoggarty she was then) to purchase the West Diddlesex shares: receiving, of course, a large bonus for himself.

But directly he found that Mrs.Hoggarty had fallen into the hands of Mr.Brough, and that he should lose the income he made from the lawsuits with her tenants and from the management of her landed property, he determined to rescue her from that villain Brough, and came to town for the purpose.