However, the mischief was done; and she was too glad to get back her son to be, on such an occasion, very angry with him.

So, after a proper rebuke, she told Mrs.
John Hayes that though she never approved of her son's attachment, and thought he married below his condition, yet as the evil was done, it was their duty to make the best of it; and she, for her part, would receive her into her house, and make her as comfortable there as she could.
"I wonder whether she has any more money in that house ?" whispered Mr.
Sicklop to Mr.Redcap; who, with the landlady, had come to the door of the room, and had been amusing themselves by the contemplation of this sentimental scene.
"What a fool that wild Hirishman was not to bleed her for more!" said the landlady; "but he's a poor ignorant Papist.

I'm sure my man" (this gentleman had been hanged), "wouldn't have come away with such a beggarly sum." "Suppose we have some more out of 'em ?" said Mr.Redcap.

"What prevents us?
We have got the old mare, and the colt too,--ha! ha!--and the pair of 'em ought to be worth at least a hundred to us." This conversation was carried on sotto voce; and I don't know whether Mr.Brock had any notion of the plot which was arranged by the three worthies.

The landlady began it.