At least," added the benevolent individual, "when I have raised a wretch's rent to gain a little more by him, stony is not a bad shield to lift against prayers, and tears, and orphans, and widows, and starvation, and all such nonsense." "Not bad, neither, Nep: but there's a better rhyme than that." "You cannot mean honey, aunt?
when I guessed stony, I thought you might have some snug little cash cellar under the flags.

But honey?
are you such a thorough Mrs.Rundle as to pickle and preserve your very guineas, the same as you do strawberries or apricots in syrup ?" "Oh, you clever little fool! how prettily you do talk on: your tongue's as tidy as your cash-book: when you've any money to put by, come to Aunt Bridget for a crock to hide it in: mayn't one use a honey-pot, as Teddy Rourke would say, barring the honey ?" "Ha! and so you hide the hoard up there, aunt, eh?
along with the preserves in a honey-pot, do you ?" "We'll see--we'll see, some o' these long days; not that the money's to be yours, Nep--you're rich enough, and don't want it; there's your poor sister Scott with her fourteen children, and Aunt Bridget must give her a lift in life: she was a good niece to me, Simon, and never left my side before she married: maybe she'll have cause to bless the dead." Jennings hardly spoke a word more; but drained his glass in silence, got up a sudden stomach-ache, and wished his aunt good-night..