Brought before the Lord Mayor every week, in the papers.
Why, the chief linen-drapers
Have a man in their shops solely paid for revealing
When they can’t keep their fair hands from picking and stealing.
’Twas a mere woman’s fancy, a female caprice,
And you know at that time they’d no rural police.”
“Hum! it may have been so. Well, is that all about it?”
“No; there’s more to be told, though I dare say you’ll doubt it-
s being true; but the story goes on to relate,
That, after Maude’s death, the old Hall and estate