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If you are moved by any peculiar cause of horror, or apprehension, or danger, why not enable me to understand it, in order that you may feel assured of my anxious disposition to assist you?" "Gintlemen," exclaimed Paudeen, "what in the name of Pether White and Billy Neelins is the reason of this? But I needn't ax it's one of Mr.
"Gracious heaven!" he exclaimed, "what is this? what villanous calumny has gone abroad?" Here Dandy saw clearly that his master was in distress, and generously resolved to step in to his assistance. "Paudeen," said he, "you know nothing about this business, my hurler. You're a day before the fair.
See Paudeen, the smith, from time to time, and get whatever he knows out of him. His father was a tenant of ours, and he ought to remember our kindness to him and his." "Ay," said Fergus, "and he does too." "Well, it is clear he does. Get from him all the information you can, and let me hear it. I would give you shelter in my house, but that now would be dangerous both to you and me.
Paudeen Gair and Peggy observed that he wrote at least three or four letters every day, and knew that he must have put them into the post-office with his own hands, inasmuch as no person connected with the inn had been employed for that purpose.
Those who were inclined to devotion and there is no lack of it in Ireland took to carols and hymns, which they sang, for want of better airs, to tunes highly comic. We have ourselves often heard the Doxology sung in Irish verse to the facetious air of "Paudeen O'Rafferty," and other hymns to the tune of "Peas upon a Trencher," and "Cruskeen Lawn."
"That will do, Paudeen," he added, "thank you." "Faix," said Paudeen to himself, when descending the stairs, "I'm afeard that's no tradesman whatever he is. He took on him a look like a lord when that unfortunate Fenton went into the room. Troth, I'm fairly puzzled, at any rate!" "Take a seat, Mr. Fenton," said the stranger, handing him a chair, and addressing him in terms of respect.
"It manes an ould waistcoat; that is, it's the Irish for an ould waistcoat, and Paudeen Gar's men were called Shanavests, bekaise when they went out to swear the people against tithes and priests' dues, they put ould waistcoats about them for fraid o' bein' known." "And you tell me that McCarthy's a White-boy?"
"Divil a thing else, now, Paudeen," said Dandy, with a face full of most villanous mystery that had runaway and elopement in every line of it and a tone of voice that would have shamed a couple-beggar "bad scran to the ha'p'orth happened. So don't be puttin' bad constructions on things too soon.
"No, sir; he doesn't belong to this neighborhood; an' the truth is, that nobody here that ever I heard of knows anything at all, barrin' guesswork, about the unfortunate poor creature. If ever he was a gintleman," exclaimed the kind-hearted waiter, "he's surely to be pitied, when one sees the state he's brought to." "Well, Paudeen, will you fetch him to me, if you know where he is?
"No, sir," she replied; "about six months." "Do you never keep male waiters in this establishment," he inquired. "Oh, yes, sir; Paudeen Gair and I generally act week about. This is my week, sir, an' he's at the plough." "And where have you been at service before you came here, my good girl?" "In Sir Thomas Gourlay's, sir." The stranger could not prevent himself from starting.
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