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What little natural power he had ever had, could not be said to have been impaired by age, for Lawrence Macdermot was not in years an old man he was not above fifty; but a total want of energy, joined to a despairing apathy, had rendered him by this time little better than an idiot. Very soon after his coming to his property Flannelly had become a daily and intolerant burthen to him.
I heard Jerry feeling around in the dark and then the click of his knife opening. I couldn't think what he was doing, but after quite a long time he pushed something into my hand and said: "Does that feel anything like it?" "Like what?" I said, but the next minute I knew. It did feel like Simpson soft and flannelly, with a round, bumpy sort of head at one end. "Oh, how did you do it!" I said.
You see how much your father's comfort would be improved; and as I suppose, after all, your sister is to be married, you couldn't well keep the house up; and I'll tell you what more Mr. Flannelly proposes for yourself." "I don't want what Mr. Flannelly will do for me; but I'm thinking of the old man, and Feemy there."
Among the countless members who helped unceasingly by writing, speaking and in many other ways were Elizabeth Jordan, Janet Richards, Mrs. William A. Prendergast, Countess Mackin, Mrs. Schuyler Warren, Sara H. Fahey, Mrs. William H. Yorke, Anne Sands O'Shea, Catharine G. Hogan, Helen Haines, Aimee Hutchinson, Mary C. Larkin, May H. Morey, Frances Gallogly, Annie Nolan, Rose and Fanny Flannelly.
Macdermot," and the attorney turned to the father, who sat poring over the fire, as if he was determined not to hear a word that passed, "you see, Mr. Macdermot, Mr. Flannelly is thinking how much better it would be to settle the affair of this mortgage out and out. He's getting very old, Mr. Macdermot.
But it'll come to that, whether or no. How's my father to get this money for Flannelly?" "D n Flannelly!" was Brady's easy solution of the family difficulties. "Let him take the house he built, and be d d to him; and if we can't build a betther one for the masthur and Miss Feemy and you, without his help, may praties choke me!"
Wild oranges, too, are found on Mount Haghier, of a very rich yellow when ripe, but bitter as gall to eat; and the wild pomegranate, with its lovely red flowers and small yellow fruit, the flannelly coating of which only is eaten, instead of the seeds, as is the case with the cultivated one.
Thady, I say," shouted, or rather screamed, the old man, as his son continued silently eating his breakfast, "Thady, I say; have they the money, at all at all, any of them; or is it stubborn they are? There's Flannelly and Keegan with their d d papers and bills and costs; will you be making out the £142 7s. 6d. before Christmas for the hell-hounds; or it's them'll be masters in Ballycloran?
When the poor man thought of these things and he did little else now but think of them bitterly, though generally in silence, he cursed him whom he looked upon as his oppressor and incubus. It never occurred to him that if Mr. Flannelly built the house he lived in, he should be paid for it.
His father's state the impossibility of carrying on the war any longer against the enmity of Flannelly and Keegan his own forlorn prospects the insult and blow he had just received from the overbearing, heartless lawyer but, above all, Feemy's condition, and his fears respecting her, were too much for him to bear.
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