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Faix, there's Playful at her tricks already by dad she'll be over the ropes! steady, Bob steady, or she'll back on you give it her, Gayner, my boy, give it her, never spare her laws! did you see that? Well if he gets her over the course, he'd ride the very divil.
I believe I'm to say all the good I can about her, and upon my word she doesn't want spirit." Here he whispered Gayner, whom he told to bid for themselves conjointly. "Come, gentlemen, what do you offer? people say she's wicked, but she'll not kick you if you don't come in her reach.
There were others there, sitting at the table, who were to ride to-morrow, but whose usual weight allowed them to do so, without the annoyance to which Gayner and Brown had to subject themselves.
"I've drawn Brickbat," said Fitzpatrick, "a d d good horse; he won the hunters' plate at Tuam last year." "Oh! I wish you joy," said Gayner, "for he won't start to-morrow, my boy: he's at Tuam now." "Begad! he'll start as soon as yourself, Bob," said little Larry; "he came to Castleknock last night, and he's at Frenchpark now: Murphy from Frenchpark is to ride him."
"As for old friends," said Louey, "I and Miss Macdermot were never so very intimate; and as for being ill-natured, I never was told before that I was more ill-natured than mother. But of course mamma will do as she likes, only she can't very well turn Mr. Gayner out of the house after having asked him to come for the races, that's all:" and Miss Louey flounced out of the room. "Come, Mrs.
Great was the crowd round Mrs. McKeon's car, and plentiful the partners who solicited the honour of dancing with Lyddy, Louey, and Feemy. McKeon was there in all his glory, shaking hands with every one praising his mare with his mouth full of ham, and uttering vehement eulogiums on Gayner between the different tumblers of porter, which in his joy he seemed to swallow unconsciously.
But by a coincidence the doctor came, gimlet-eyed. "Hysteria...." he said to Sister in the bunk. "Is no one going to reassure Gayner?" I wondered. And no one did. Isn't the fear of pain next brother to pain itself? Tetanus or the fear of tetanus a choice between two nightmares. Don't they admit that? So, forbidden to speak to him, I finished my splint till tea-time.
Gayner is to be here the night of the race-ball, and we've only the one bed." "Come, come, Miss Louey, I didn't expect to hear you say a word against your old friend; why should you be less good-natured than your mother? You see she's thinking how she can best do what I'm asking."
If any man finished his punch and did not fill again, McKeon reminded him of his duty and that not only by preaching, but by continual practice. In fact, he was just in his element, and enjoying himself. There was an empty chair next Mr. McKeon, where his friend Mr. Gayner had been sitting I won't say during his dinner, for he had not swallowed a mouthful.
It was Gayner, surely seeing a ghost. I rose and went to his bed. "My jaws want to close," he muttered. "I can't keep them open." I jumped and went for Sister, who took the news in a leisurely fashion, which reproved me for my excitement. Feeling a fool, I went and sat down again, taking up my splint. But there was no forgetting Gayner.
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