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Burke," replied Finigan, assuming a lofty and impressive manner, "I have known the M'Mahons for better than forty years; so, in fact, has the country around them; and until the present moment I never heard that a deliberate falsehood, or any breach of truth whatsoever, was imputed to any one of them.
"Upon what grounds and authority do you spake, sir?" asked Finigan, whose dignity was beginning to take offence. "I have good grounds and excellent authority for what I say," replied Hycy. "You have acted a very dishonorable part, Mr. Finigan, and the consequence is that I have ceased to be your friend." "I act a dishonorable part.
Still, he was cautious and shrewd, and seldom or never permitted those opinions to interfere with or obstruct his own interests. Be this is it may, the secret was not long kept. Esther Wilson impeached her master's loyalty, and she herself was indignantly assailed for her treachery by Molly Finigan, who hoped in her soul that her master and young mistress would both die in the true Church yet.
"Bravo, masther!" said Keenan; "that's what some o' them couldn't say " "Upon locomotive principles. I admit Munster, gintlemen glorious Kerry! yes, and I say I am not ashamed of it. Gintlemen, I have the honor of being able to write 'Philomath' after my name which is O'Finigan, not Finigan, by any means and where is the oyster in his shell could do that?
"I thought as much," said Hycy. "Here then ," proceeded Finigan, with a broad and provoking grin upon his coarse but humorous features, "here, Mr. Hycy, is what I did say says I, 'Bryan, I have a word to say to you, touching an accomplished young gentleman, a friend of yours. "'What is that? asked the worthy Beit-nardus. "'It is regarding the all-accomplished Mr.
So, Dick, put up your bottle, and in the name of God, go home, boy, and mind your business; but, above all, when you want a wife, go to them that you may have a right to expect, and not to a girl like Mary Finigan, that could lay down guineas where you could hardly find shillings. * Cows without horns. Esker; a high ridge of land, generally barren and unproductive, when upon a small scale.
"Ay," said Finigan, with another grin, "a bit of a knave, am I? Well, now, isn't it better to be only a bit of a knave than a knave all out a knave in full proportions, from top to toe, from head to heel like some accomplished gentlemen that I have the! honor of being acquainted wid. But in the I meantime, now, don't be in a hurry, man alive, nor look as if you were fatted on vinegar.
Prepare then, childre'; for out of the counthry, or at any rate from among the people, the poverty and the misery that's in it, wid God's assistance, we'll go while we're able to do so." Finigan Defends the Absent. The three Hogans, whom we have lost sight of for some time, were, as our readers already know, three most unadulterated ruffians, in every sense of that most respectable term.
On riding up to the school, Hycy, as he approached the door, heard his own name repeated by at least two dozen voices. "Here's a gintleman, masther" "It's Misther Hycy Burke, sir " "It is, bedad, sir, Hycy the sportheen " "Him that rides the race, masther" "Ay, an' he has on top-boots and buckskins, an's as gran' as a gintleman " "Silence!" said Finigan, "silence!
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