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"Our own little affair has got to come off first, though, so I'll see the High Bailiff as soon as I return. "And what do you think, my 'chree'? The boys of the 'Scotia' are all coming over to Ellan for the great event. 'Deed, yes, though, every man-jack of them! Scientific staff included, not to speak of O'Sullivan and old Treacle who swears you blew a kiss to him.
I won't believe that lie of my boy, no more than I ever believed a word of' what was sed against him. Shawn Oge aroon, you won't refuse me, avillish. What 'ud become of me, avich ma chree, if you fight him? Would you have the mother's heart broken, an' our roof childless all out?
Seasons may roll, But the true soul, Burns the same wherever it goes; Let fate frown on, so we love and part not, 'T is life where thou art, 't is death where thou art not! Then come o'er the sea, Cushla ma chree! Mine wherever the wild wind blows!"
'What's the matter, sweet one? coming up and caressing Molly. 'Is it worrying itself over that letter? Why, don't you see these are my very own horrible letters, that I am going to burn directly, that Mr. Preston has had the grace to send me, thanks to you, little Molly cuishla ma chree, pulse of my heart, the letters that have been hanging over my head like somebody's sword for these two years?
And as he pulled with weak, ineffectual oars against the mighty weight of the rolling billows, he thought he heard the words of an old Irish song which he remembered having listened to, when as quite a young man he had paid his first and last visit to the misty and romantic shores of Britain. "Come o'er the sea Cushla ma chree! Mine through sunshine, storm and snows!
She got as far as the door and then turned and said: "I wish I had a photo of you a right one, just as you are at this very minute. I'd hang it in your own room, and times and times in the day I'd be running upstairs to look at it. But it's all as one. I could not speak after that, but I kissed her as she was going out, and she said: "That's nice, now! Good-bye, my chree!
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