It will be a matter of a hundred pounds to him, I warrant." Doctor Wood resumed his reading.

"Hum--hum! A Romish missal, out of which he was reading, and a case-bottle.
"By means of the famous Mr.Wild, this notorious criminal was brought to justice, and the case-bottle and missal have been restored to Father O'Flaherty.
"During his confinement in Newgate, Mr.Macshane could not be brought to express any contrition for his crimes, except that of having killed his commanding officer.

For this Wood he pretended an excessive sorrow, and vowed that usquebaugh had been the cause of his death,--indeed, in prison he partook of no other liquor, and drunk a bottle of it on the day before his death.
"He was visited by several of the clergy and gentry in his cell; among others, by the Popish priest whom he had robbed, Father O'Flaherty, before mentioned, who attended him likewise in his last moments (if that idolatrous worship may be called attention), and likewise by the Father's patron, the Bavarian Ambassador, his Excellency Count Maximilian de Galgenstein." As old Wood came to these words, he paused to give them utterance.
"What! Max ?" screamed Mrs.Hayes, letting her ink-bottle fall over her ledgers.
"Why, be hanged if it ben't my father!" said Mr.Billings.
"Your father, sure enough, unless there be others of his name, and unless the scoundrel is hanged," said the Doctor--sinking his voice, however, at the end of the sentence.
Mr.Billings broke his pipe in an agony of joy.

"I think we'll have the coach now, Mother," says he; "and I'm blessed if Polly Briggs shall not look as fine as a duchess." "Polly Briggs is a low slut, Tom, and not fit for the likes of you, his Excellency's son.

Oh, fie! You must be a gentleman now, sirrah; and I doubt whether I shan't take you away from that odious tailor's shop altogether." To this proposition Mr.Billings objected altogether; for, besides Mrs.
Briggs before alluded to, the young gentleman was much attached to his master's daughter, Mrs.Margaret Gretel, or Gretchen Beinkleider.
"No," says he.