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Peety had got as far as the market-house which was about the centre of the street on his way, we say, to the post-office, when he met his daughter Nanny, who, after a few words of inquiry, asked him where he was going. "Faith, an' that's more than I dare tell you," he replied. "Why," she said, "is there a saicret in it, I'm sure you needn't keep it from me, whatever it is."
"I have something to say to you," she replied, without noticing the allusion he had made; "something that you ought to know." "An' why not mention it where we are?" "Bekaise I don't wish her there to know it." "Thank you, ma'am," replied Nelly; "I feel your kindness an, dear me, what a sight o' wisdom I'll lose by bein' kep' out o' the saicret saicret indeed!
"Poor Dora," he said, after surveying her for a time with an expression of love and compassion, "I know your saicret, and have done so this long time; but don't be cast down. You have been a warm and faithful little friend to me, and it will go hard or I'll befriend you yet." Dora looked up into his face, and as she did, her eyes filled with tears.
Troth, my own opinion is, he'll be one of ourselves yet; for I can tell you a saicret about him." "A saicret, Barney," said Grace; "maybe he's married?"
"But why swear you, I ask again, to keep a secret which you did not know?" "Why, ma'am, because they knew that in that case there was little danger of our committin' parjury; and because every saicret which one does not know is sure to be kept." She looked keenly at him, and added, "I'm inclined to think, sirrah, that you are impertinent." "Very likely, ma'am," replied Tom, with great gravity.
"Donnel," said the wife, "it's no saicret to me; but it's enough now that you've owned it. This is the last night that I'll spend with a murdherer. You know what I've to answer for on my own account; and so, in the name of God, we'll part in the mornin'." "Ha!" exclaimed Sarah, "you'd leave him now, would you?
"I know ye will, bekaise you can," replied, the pedlar; "how do you come round the girls at all? how do you make them fond o' you? I want you to tell me that, if it's not a family saicret." Mogue gravely drew his fingers and thumb down his thin yellow jaws, until they met under his chin, and replied
Divil a mortal could beat me at keepin' a saicret, at any rate; an' when you tell me this, maybe I'll let you know one or two that'll be worth hearin'." "Well," continued Alley, "it's this Never call my mistress Lady Lucy, because she doesn't like it." This was an apple from the shores of the Dead Sea.
I have been strugglin' for years to keep this saicret, an' now it must come out; but I'm not a murdherer." "What saicret, father, if you're not a murdherer?" asked Sarah; "what saicret; but there is not murder on you; do you say that?" "I do say it; there's neither blood nor murdher on my head! but I know who the murdherer is, an' I can keep the saicret no longer!"
"It can't be tould, Misther Magrath; some men the women's naturally fond of, and some men they can't bear throth it's like a freemason's saicret, if you wor a man that the women wor naturally fond of you'd know it yoarself, but not bein' that, Mr. Magrath, you could not understand it. It's born wid one, an' troth, a troublesome gift it is for it is a gift at least, I find it so.
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