There was mean malice, and fierce scorn, and black revenge, and sinful desire, boiling up in the hearts of these wretched people, enough to content Mr.Wood's great master himself.
Hayes's business, as we have said, was nominally that of a carpenter; but since, for the last few years, he had added to it that of a lender of money, the carpenter's trade had been neglected altogether for one so much more profitable.

Mrs.Hayes had exerted herself, with much benefit to her husband, in his usurious business.

She was a resolute, clear-sighted, keen woman, that did not love money, but loved to be rich and push her way in the world.

She would have nothing to do with the trade now, however, and told her husband to manage it himself.

She felt that she was separated from him for ever, and could no more be brought to consider her interests as connected with his own.
The man was well fitted for the creeping and niggling of his dastardly trade; and gathered his moneys, and busied himself with his lawyer, and acted as his own bookkeeper and clerk, not without satisfaction.