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My father and grandfather both died of a divarsion of blood to the head." "I rather think," observed another, "that they died by taking their divarsion at the beefsteak and the pot of porter." "No matther," said Billy, "they died at all events, and so will we all, plaise God." "Gome," said one of them, "there is Jack Brereton and his cane let us come to business.
An' the neighbours wor all mighty well plased, to be sure, for gettin' all the divarsion of a wake, an' two weddin's for nothin. Being a Tenth Extract from the Legacy of the late Francis Purcell, P.P. of Drumcoolagh.
"A great notion intirely," she said; "on'y she'd scarce have thought he'd go do such a thing on her in airnest. And I runnin' away indoors yisterday out of the heighth of the divarsion, when the band-music was a thrate to be hearin', just to see his bit of supper wouldn't be late on him.
They remained both some time silent, till at last Brady observed that, "They'd all of them had ilegant divarsion last night most of them stayed a power later nor you, Mr. Thady." This allusion to last night was not at present the subject most likely to make Thady talk freely, so he still continued silent. At last Pat said, "Could I spake to you a moment, Mr. Thady?" "Spake out what is it?"
"I can endure," sez I; ould Mother Sheehy bein' no divarsion av mine, nor her daughter too. Judy fetched the tea things an' put thim on the table, leanin' over me very close to get thim square. I dhrew back, thinkin' av Dinah. "Is ut afraid you are av a girl alone?" sez Judy. "No," sez I. "Why should I be?" "That rests wid the girl," sez Judy, dhrawin' her chair next to mine.
"I tuk a peg an'' jammed ut into his ugly jaw 'Bite on that, Peg Barney, I sez; 'the night is settin' frosty, an' you'll be wantin' divarsion before the mornin'. But for the Rig'lations you'd be bitin' on a bullet now at the thriangles, Peg Barney, sez I. "All the draf' was out av their tents watchin' Barney bein' pegged. "''Tis agin the Rig'lations!
Och, the days I could tell of when there was the fine company-keepin', and the divarsion, and the carriages of the quality drivin' up to the doors, and the music and the dancin'! Them were the days that were worth havin', an' not these days when every one is old every one but yourself, Miss Bawn; and you're that quiet that I wouldn't know you were in the house. Och, the good days! the good days!"
An' so, signs an', Billy Malowney and Molly Donovan fell out one evening at ould Tom Dundon's wake; an' whatever came betune them, she made no more about it but just draws her cloak round her, and away wid herself and the sarvant-girl home again, as if there was not a corpse, or a fiddle, or a taste of divarsion in it.
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