Sir Jenkins Joram, who took her down to dinner, declared, on feeling the size of the bracelets which encircled her wrists, that he labored for a short time under the impression that he and she were literally handcuffed together; an impression, he added, from which he was soon relieved by the consoling reflection that it was the sheriff himself whom the clergyman had sentenced to stand in that pleasant predicament.

Of Mrs.Brown and Mrs.Hastings we have only to say that they were modest, sensible, unassuming women, without either parade or pretence, such, in fact, as you will generally meet among our well-bred and educated countrywomen.

Lord Deilmacare was a widower, without family, and not a marrying man.

Indeed, when pressed upon this subject, he was never known to deviate from the one reply.
"Why don't you marry again, my lord ?--will you ever marry ?" "No, madam, I got enough of it," a reply which, somehow, generally checked any further inquiry on the subject.

Between Lady Joram and Mrs.
Smellpriest there subsisted a singular analogy with respect to their conjugal attachments.