“ ‘Did she?’ said Tom Smart.

“ ‘And these shoes,’ said the old fellow, lifting up one of the red cloth mufflers; ‘but don’t mention it, Tom. I shouldn’t like to have it known that she was so much attached to me. It might occasion some unpleasantness in the family.’ When the old rascal said this, he looked so extremely impertinent, that, as Tom Smart afterwards declared, he could have sat upon him without remorse.