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The fellow pretends to have a conscience, and be cursed to him prates about the Union preaches against corruption and talks about the people, as if they were fit to be anything else than what they are. This is a pretty fellow for you to have as an agent to your property. Now, I'll tell you what, my Lord you know old Deaker well.
"Gentlemen," observed Hartley, "it strikes me, no matter what the multiplicity of other virtues we possess, there is somehow nothing like a superabundance of shame among us; we appear to glory in our vices." "Why confound it, Hartley," replied Deaker, "where's the use of assuming what we do not and cannot feel? Would you have me preach honesty, who am as d d a rogue as there is here?
The reader, therefore, already perceives that M'Clutchy's real name was Deaker; but perhaps he is not aware that, in the times of which we write, it was usual for young unmarried men of wealth not to suffer their illegitimate children to be named after them. There were, indeed, many reasons for this.
There is a screw loose somewhere, so to speak, that is all but I believe, I can say, that if your father, Deaker, will act to our purposes, all will be as we could wish. This is a delicate subject, my dear friend, but still I am of opinion that if you could, by any practicable means; soften the unfortunate female who possesses such an ascendancy over him, all will be right.
"Darcy," said Deaker, addressing a thin, red-faced man beside him, "I saw a pretty bit of goods in Castle Cumber market on Thursday." "Why, Deaker," replied the other, "is it possible that with one foot and more than half your body in the grave, and your shadow in h l, you sinner, you have not yet given up your profligacy."
Deaker, drop whistling the Boyne Water there, and see what's going on here." "No," said Deaker, "there never was such air composed as the Boyne Water; and my only request is, that I may die whistling it. Damn it, Jollyblock, unless a man is a good Protestant he's bad for everything else." "But how the devil Deaker, can you call yourself a good Protestant, when you believe in nothing?"
"Why," said Deaker, "I believe that a certain set of political opinions are necessary for our safety and welfare in this world; and, I believe, that these are to be found in the Church, and that it is good Protestantism to abide by them, yes, and by the Church too, so long as she teaches nothing but politics, as she does, and acts up to them." "And does your faith stop there?"
"Well," replied Deaker, "and let him have it. Isn't he as well entitled to a job as any of us? What the devil why not put a few feathers in his nest, man? The county has a broad back." "His nest is better feathered than he deserves. He has two enormous livings, a good private fortune, and now, indeed, he must come to saddle himself upon the county in the shape of a job."
"Old Deaker You have me fast, and you know it so I suppose must is the word; now I'll tell you what I want, you old villain; I want two thousand pounds, and if M'Clutchy is to get the agency, I must have the money so there is my must as well as yours.
"Certainly Phil did not wish to strike the young man in his own house, and had more sense than to violate the peace in the presence of a magistrate, and that magistrate his own father." "How the devil did he put his comether on M'Loughlin's pretty daughter, Val?" asked another from a different part of the room. "That," said Deaker, "is the only spirited thing I ever knew him to manage.
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