Come as you are--Liberty Hall at Trebooze;" and out he swaggered.
"Does he bully her ?" thought Tom, "or is he hen-pecked, and wants to hide it?
I'll see to-night, and play my cards accordingly." All which Miss Heale had heard.

She had been peeping and listening at the glass-door, and her mother also; for no sooner had Trebooze entered the shop, than she had run off to tell her mother the surprising fact, Trebooze's custom having been, for some years past, courted in vain by Heale.

So Miss Heale peeped and peeped at a man whom she regarded with delighted curiosity, because he bore the reputation of being "such a naughty wicked man!" and "so very handsome too, and so distinguished as he looks!" said the poor little fool, to whose novel-fed imagination Mr.Trebooze was an ideal Lothario.
But the surprise of the two dames grew rapidly as they heard Tom's audacity towards the country aristocrat.
"Impudent wretch!" moaned Mrs.Heale to herself.

"He'd drive away an angel if he came into the shop." "Oh, ma! hear how they are going on now." "I can't bear it, my dear.

This man will be the ruin of us.