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"Where is he?" shrieked the woman. The surgeon, accustomed to similar scenes, nodded to an attendant, and said, gravely, "Show her." Merwyn took the poor woman's hand to restrain as well as to reassure her, saying, with sympathies deeply touched, "Mrs. Ghegan, remember you are not friendless, whatever happens." "Quick! quick!" she said to her guide. "Och! what's a wurld uv frin's if I lose Barney?
"The docthers think me Barney'll live, but oi thank Misther Merwyn that took him out o' the very claws uv the bloody divils, and not their bat's eyes. Faix, but he tops all yez frin's, Miss Marian, tho' ye're so could to 'im. All the spalpanes in the strates couldn't make 'im wink, yet while I was a-wailin' over Barney he was as tender-feelin' as a baby."
"Thunder! man, do you think no one but Irishmen are going to have a fist in this scrimmage? I'm as ready to fight as you are, and am only going down town to join my own gang. Why shouldn't I have an Irishman for a friend, if he's a good fellow, I'd like to know?" "Beloikes they'll be yez best frin's. All roight. Dhrive on and moind your eye, or the bull-dog will bark."