CHAPTER CXVII.
SHOWS HOW MRS. OAKLEY RECONCILED HERSELF TO EVERYBODY AT HOME.
When Ben and Mrs. Oakley had thus disposed of Mr. Lupin, and left him to his solitary and not very pleasant reflections in a cell of the round-house, they found themselves together in the open street, and Ben, as he cast a woeful glance at her, said—
“Well, how does yer feel now? Easy does it! Oh, you aint a-been and behaved yourself properly lately—you is like the old bear as we calls Nosey. He’s always a-doing what he shouldn’t, and always a-never doing what he should.”
“Ben?”
“Well, blaze away. What is yer going to say now?”
“I feel, Ben, that I am a very different woman from what I was—very different.”
“Then you must have gained by the exchange, for you was, I will say it, anything but a pleasant bit o
