Shure all he's afther is to frighthen you out of this. Never fear: Barry can't hurt us a halfporth, though no doubt he's willing enough, av' he had the way." "I wish I was in a convent, this moment," said Anty. "Oh! I wish I'd done as father asked me long since. Av' the walls of a convent was around me, I'd niver know what throubles was." "No more you shan't now," said Martin: "Who's to hurt you?

"I'm sure Lady Mason ought to be very much obliged to you," said Kantwise. "Nobody needn't care for what's said to them in a court," said Snengkeld. "I remember when once they wanted to make out that I'd taken a parcel of teas " "Stolen, you mean, sir," suggested Mrs. Smiley. "Yes; stolen. But it was only done by the opposite side in court, and I didn't think a halfporth of it.

"I doubt that, Martin: he's not fond of paying, the mane, dirthy blackguard. I tell you what, you shouldn't iver have let Daly inside the house: he'll make us pay for the writing o' thim as shure as my name's Mary Kelly: av' he hadn't got into the house, he couldn't've done a halfporth." "I tell you, mother, it wouldn't have done not to let him see Anty.