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"Oh, he's right enough for the soul, but what would Father Healy know about the body?" he asked. Mrs. Quirk having placed the yeast in his mind, left it to ferment. She well knew that in a few days' time a letter would be despatched to the Presbytery at Grey Town. And this happened as she anticipated. In due course, too, the answer came back to them.
They cut a pitiful figure in Parliament, where their internal bickerings and miserable squabbles reduced them to positive impotence. For years the "Antis," as they were termed, were divided into two almost equal sections, one upholding the claims of John Dillon and the other faithful to the flag of T.M. Healy.
Without attempting for a moment to underrate Parnell as a great leader of men, I must say that there were members of the Party far abler in many respects than he was, and, no doubt, in looking around for someone to supply the qualities in which he, himself, was wanting, he could see that Healy was the very man for his purpose.
Among America's most talented artists and portrait painters may be mentioned George P. Healy, William J. Hennessy, Thomas Moran, Henry Pelham, Henry Murray, John Neagle, and William Magrath, all of Irish birth or descent. Ireland has given many eminent churchmen to the United States.
He nodded his grey head significantly, but he went on with the bare evidence: "When John J. Healy make last trip down this fall Nicholas pilot you savvy they let him take his sister, Holy Cross to Pymeut. I see she wear this round neck." The weight of the medal carried the raw-hide necklace slipping through his fingers.
"Let thim dundther," Mary said. He put his hand behind his ear and asked eagerly: "What is 't?" "Somebody's dundtherin'." "Let thim go t' h ," he said angrily. "Th' tuk 'im frum Anna last time, th' won't take 'im frum me an' you, Mary." Another and louder knock. "It's Misthress Healy," came a voice. Again his hand was behind his ear. The name was repeated to him.
Cold as chilled steel, in spite of the fire of passion that blazed within him, Healy slid to the ground on the far side of his horse and, without exposing himself, slowly worked to the loose boulders bordering the edge of the canon bed. The bawling of the cattle and the faint whimpering of Dixon alone disturbed the silence.
It was in the first gray, an hour before Healy kicked his outfit awake. Bedient was back in camp in time to start breakfast, having made a big detour to reach the base of the gorge. It wasn't a thing to speak about, but he had made a pilgrimage to the pit where the farrier had fallen.... Another time, Cairns awoke in the same way.
Perhaps the lad needed the discipline that life hammers into those who want to be a law unto themselves. With an insolence extremely boyish, the lad turned to Healy. "I'm for running out a few of these nesters. We've got more than we can use, I reckon. The range is overstocked now both with them and cows. Come a bad year and half of our cattle will starve."
He had put three horses out of commission and disabled one of the outlaws so badly that he would prove negligible in the attack. Peering down, he could see Healy, with superb contempt for the marksman above, slowly and carefully carry his wounded comrade to shelter. The other men were already driven back to cover. The cattle, excited by the firing, were milling round and round uneasily.
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