Instead of being decently asked in church, they were married over a broomstick.

But, of all their whims, the use of the new patent steel-traps was the most remarkable.
This trap was constructed on a completely new principle.

It consisted of a cleaver hung in a frame like a window; when any poor wretch got in, down it came with a tremendous din, and took off his head in a twinkling.

They got the squire into one of these machines.

In order to prevent any of his partisans from getting footing in the parish, they placed traps at every corner.