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Mike Kinneth, her father, was a drinking Irishman, a good-hearted fellow when sober, but pugnacious and disposed to beat his wife when drunk. The poor woman came over to see me one day. She had been crying, and there was an ugly bruise on her cheek. "Your riverence will excuse me," she said, curtseying, "but I wish you would come over and spake a word to me husband.
I heard tell that Tom Ginty, the pig-jobber, has comed home to Dromod from where he was away tiv' Athlone; and they do be telling me, he brought a thrifle of money with him; and yer honer knows Mary had half given a promise to Ginty afore he went: and so, yer riverence, lest there be any scrimmage betwixt Ginty and I, ye see it's as well to get the marriage done off hand."
The most deadly insult that can be offered to a Laraghmenian as such, is an allusion to the libellous report which has somehow become current to the effect that his Riverence at Drumroe, the nearest parish, always sends over a special messenger on Saturday night to remind them of the morrow's Mass; the innuendo being that Laraghmena's out-of-the-way situation, and general want of culture, preclude its inhabitants from knowing the day of the week.
How did the mother's making a mistake about the cow prevent your marrying her daughter?" "Why, yer riverence, then, if you'll let me, I'll jist explain the matter. Ould Betsy Cane that's her mother you know promised me the brown cow, yer riverence may know, as is in the little garden behint the cabin, for her dater's fortin; and says I to her, 'Well, may be she may be worth four pound tin, Mrs.
"Stop! stop!" exclaimed Calvin Van de Lear, rising. "It seems to me I have seen that fellow's face before. Donovan, hadn't you a wooden leg when last I saw you?" "No doubt of it," answered the Irishman. "Why haven't you got it on now?" cried Calvin, scowling. "Because, yer riverence, me own legs was plenty good enough on this occasion."
"Could you not do it yourself, father? Could you not spoil the marriage?" "No, no, Catherine. You are past me now. I have nothing more to do with your marriage." "That aises me mind," said Catherine, "and God bless your riverence. There's the ticket for your hat. I picked it up in the lobby and pawned it." An Addition to the Catechism
"'Why then, plase your Riverence, by the hem I say Father Corrigan, it wasn't my fault, but that villain Flanagan's, for he knows I fairly won the bottle and would have distanced him, only that when I was far before him, the vagabone, he galloped across me on the way, thinking to thrip up the horse.
"'Patrick, said the doctor, in opening the case, 'what was the cause of that noise up stairs Saturday night? "'Well, Your Riverence, began Pat, and his small gray eyes twinkled as he cast a sly glance at me, 'Sathurday noight I fought I'd call on me cousin, who has just coom from the ould counthry, an' is workin' in the village' "'At Smith's, put in Al, by way of explanation."
"'We've come up, your riverence, to see if you'd plaze to marry us this night. They tould us you wor angry, sur, and, indade, I don't blame you; for you don't know all. The man who lies dead beyant was able to give me a home, and to keep a roof over the heads of my poor father and mother, and I gave up Lanty here for him.
"But what do you think they'd do to the Captain to-night, Denis?" "Faix then, yer riverence, I don't know what they'd be doing, murther him, maybe." "God forbid! But, Denis, those men from Drumleesh could hardly know Captain Ussher was going to be at the wedding to-night." "Oh! yer riverence, they'd know it well enough from Pat Brady."
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