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They gaped at him in wonder. Then one uttered an imprecation. "The McMurrough will explain if you will go with him," Colonel John answered patiently, "I say again, gentlemen, I shall not run away." "If you mean her any harm " "I mean her no harm." "Are you alone?" "I am alone." So far Morty. But Phelim O'Beirne was not quite satisfied.
"It's Phelim, my brother, miss, has been here, and it's a house full o' company there is at home." "And they want you to spend the holy Sabbath to-morrow in visiting them, I suppose." "No, Miss Annie." "What then?" asked Mrs. Lee, after a moment's silence. "Nothing to speak of, ma'am. Leastways nothing to trouble ye about."
I hope your Reverence 'll come to the christ'nin'? But about the clo'es; bad luck saize the tack I have to put to my back, but what you see an me, if we wor to be married to-morrow." "Well, Phelim, aroon," said Mrs. Doran, "his Reverence here has my little pences o' money in his hands, an' the best way is for you to get the price of a suit from him.
She feared that Phelim would be apt to break off the match, and take some opportunity, before Sunday should arrive, of preventing the priest from calling them. Her decision, however, was soon made. She resolved, if possible to pin down Phelim to his own proposal. "Is this true, Mrs. Doran?" inquired the priest, a second time. Mrs.
Sir Phelim was a civilian, bred to the profession of the law; Rory O'Moore, also, had never seen service; and although Colonel Owen O'Neil and others had promised to join them "at fourteen days' notice," a variety of accidents prevented the arrival of any officer of distinction during the brief remainder of that year.
At length the approach of Phelim and his father was announced by a verse of a popular song, for singing which Phelim was famous; "A sailor coorted a farmer's daughter That lived contagious to the Isle of Man, A long time coortin', an' still discoorsin' Of things consarnin' the ocean wide; At linth he saize, 'My own dearest darlint, Will you consint for to be my bride?"
Again, the prisoner at the bar could not possibly have shot the deceased, "bekase Mickey slept that very night at Phelim's, an' Phelim, bein' ill o' the colic, never slep at all durin' the whole night; an', by the vartue of his oath, the poor boy couldn't go out o' the house unknownst to him. If he had, Phelim would a seen him, sure."
Terence heard the secret of the bet with joy, entered into the jest with all the readiness of an Irishman, and with equal joy and readiness swore by the hind leg of the holy lamb that he would never mention, even to his own dog, the name of Phelim O'Mooney, Esq., good or bad, till past twelve o'clock; and further, that he would, till the clock should strike that hour, call his master Sir John Bull, and nothing else, to all men, women, and children, upon the floor of God's creation.
"Hey! brother, I say!" continued Phelim, in a triumphant English tone; "I never was taken for an Irishman in my life. Colonel Broadman told me the other day, I spoke English better than the English themselves; that he should take me for an Englishman, in any part of the known world, the moment I opened my lips. You must allow that not the smallest particle of brogue is discernible on my tongue."
"Phelim," said the mother, "did you take anything while you wor away?" "Did I take anything! is it? Arrah, be asy, ould woman! Did I take anything! Faith you may say that!" "Let us know, anyhow, what's the matther wid you? asked the father. "Tare-an'-ounze!" exclaimed the son, "what is this for, at all at all? It's too killin' I am, so it is."
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