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During this chat Bryan and Hanna Cavanagh were engaged in that good-humored badinage that is common to persons of their age and position. "I didn't see you at Mass last Sunday, Bryan?" said she, laughing; "an' that's the way you attend to your devotions. Upon my word you promise well!" "I seen you, then," replied Bryan, "so it seems if I haven't betther eyes I have betther eyesight."
"Darby," said Solomon, impatiently, "this is really very trying to one so anxious for your spiritual welfare as I am. This awful swearing I really fear that some of your light has been withdrawn since our last interview." "Not at all unlikely," replied Darby; "but wid great submission, don't you think, sir, that two religions is betther than one?"
God pity you both an' grant you a betther fate than what appears to be before you! for I did hear a thrifle of your discoorse." There was something singularly benevolent and kind in the old pedlar's voice, as he uttered the last words, and he had not gone many perches from the stone, when Dalton's heart relented as he reflected on his harsh and unfriendly demeanor towards him.
Ah, Briney, my poor fellow, ye'll never be the cut of a man yer father was; but no matther, avourneen, ye'll be a betther man, I hope; and God knows you may asy be that, for Father Philemy, I'm not what I ought to be, yer Reverence; however, I may mend, and will, maybe, before a month of Sundays goes over me: but, for all that, Briney, I hope to see the day when you'll be sitting an ordained priest at my own table; if I once saw that, I could die contented so mind yer larning, acushla, and, his Reverence here will back you, and make inthorest to get you into the college.
If she's in distress, 'twas I that brought her to it, an' to shame an' to sorrow too but I'll set all right for you yet, Margaret dear an' no one has a betther right to spake for her." "Tom," said the young woman, with a feeble voice, "for the love of God let him go or he'll drop." "Not," replied Dalton, "till he gives you what you come for.
"You are right, Jerry, but as for me, I say whatever prayers I do say, always by myself; for I can then get my mind fixed upon them betther. I'll just turn into bed, then, for troth I feel a little stiff and tired; so you must only let me have my own way to-night. To-morrow night I'll pray double."
"The time was," said Sullivan, "an' it's not long since, when I could give you a comfortable welcome as well as a willin' one; but now 'tis but poor and humble tratement I can give you. But if it was betther, you should just be as welcome to it, an' what more can you say?" "Well," replied the other, "what more can you say, indeed? I'm thankful to you, Jerry, an' I'll accept your kind offer."
"No matther for that," said the stranger; "but if you'd like for to know, shure it's your own cousin Molly Mullins knows me well, and maybe I don't know you and yours as well as the mother that bore you, aye, in throth; and sure I know the very thoughts o' you as well as if I was inside o' you, Barny O'Reirdon." "By my sowl thin, you know betther thoughts than your own, Mr.
"Why," said Harte, "if I'm not allowed to edge in a word, I had betther cut." "A most solemn promise, you say?"
It's always he that has the most larned blood in his veins, and the greatest quantity of it that such hungry leeches fasten on." "Thrue for you, sir," said the youth with a smile; "but they say the bullocks always fatten the betther for it. I hope you'll bleed well now, sir." "Thady, I don't like, the curl of your nose; an', moreover, I have always found you prone to sedition.
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