He was fond enough of her as his sweetheart." "Used to kiss her scores and long-hundreds o' times, so 'twas said," observed Coggan.
"He was very proud of her, too, when they were married, as I've been told," said the maltster.
"Ay," said Coggan.

"He admired her so much that he used to light the candle three times a night to look at her." "Boundless love; I shouldn't have supposed it in the universe!" murmured Joseph Poorgrass, who habitually spoke on a large scale in his moral reflections.
"Well, to be sure," said Gabriel.
"Oh, 'tis true enough.

I knowed the man and woman both well.

Levi Everdene--that was the man's name, sure.

'Man,' saith I in my hurry, but he were of a higher circle of life than that--'a was a gentleman-tailor really, worth scores of pounds.