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"O, God help the orphan!" said Mrs. Murphy again, fearing she had not touched his reverence's heart. "It would be the charity of God to do something for them. The men would be all willing to subscribe." "We will do all we can," said his reverence. "God will provide for them, if they be what you represent. Meet me here to-morrow, at six o'clock.
"Under your reverence's favour," said Eustace, "that were but poor policy. As things now stand with us, the heretics catch hold of each flying report which tends to the scandal of our clergy. We must abate the evil, not only by strengthening discipline, but also by suppressing and stifling the voice of scandal.
At the yell which he gave, and at the noise of the fall, in came rushing his reverence's housekeeper and stable-boy, who seeing us down on the floor, his reverence upon me and my hand holding his reverence's nose, for I felt loth to let it go, they remained in astonishment and suspense.
Pay your score, if you have one, and if you have not, e'en spend your guilder in treating of your companions, and come to me at nine of the clock this evening at the Inn of the Three Archduchesses. Till then, fare you well." It must be owned that his Reverence's proposals were fair, and that his conversation was very civil.
"You know the cause of ocean currents, I dare say?" "Niver a taste," said Larry. "It's meself is as innocent about 'em as the babe unborn; an' as for Muggins there, he don't know more about 'em than my ould shoes " "Or your old grandmother," growled Muggins. "Don't be irriverent, ye spalpeen," said Larry. "I ax her reverence's pardon, but I didn't know she wos a priest," said Muggins.
But as soon as the breakfast-things were removed, and the coast clear, he took a peep into the pantry, and, after throwing his eye over its contents, sat down at the fire, making Phaddhy take a seat beside him, for the especial purpose of sounding him as to the practicability of effecting a certain design, which was then snugly latent in his Reverence's fancy.
This unpromising-looking person approached the priest and addressed him with an elaborate courtesy oddly out of keeping with his scarecrow-like appearance, but with words appropriate enough to the figure that he cut. "Reverend father," said he, "pardon the liberty I take, but may I beg of your Reverence's great kindness "
These were coldly declined; and it was a good sign that Robinson, being permitted by the regulations to write one letter, did not write to any of his old pals in London or elsewhere, but to Mr. Eden. He told him that he regretted his quiet cell where his ears were never invaded with blasphemy and indecency, things he never took pleasure in even at his worst and missed his reverence's talk sadly.
"Much you know of Rosamond's eyes!" "Or you either, boxed up in the van." "Any way, they have made roast meat of his Reverence's heart! The other two take it much more easily." "She's a mere chicken," said Charlie. "Who would have thought of Raymond being caught by a callow nestling?" "And so uncommonly cool," added Frank. "It would take much to transform Raymond," interposed the mother.
When his reverence, however, begged them, for the Virgin's sake, to separate him from the divil of a woman, they ran forward, and having with some difficulty freed his reverence's nose from my hand, they helped him up.
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