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"Indeed an' I never knew how I loved the place, an' you all, till I went; but, thank God, I hope it's the last journey ever I'll have to take from either you or it." "Shibby, run down to or do you, Dora, go, you're the souplest to Paddy Mullen's and Jemmy Kelly's, and the rest of the neighbors, an' tell them to come up, that your father's home.
"Oh! little you know, grandfather dear," replied Shibby, "that we've done wid both of them for ever." "Shibby, God bless you, achora," he returned; "but the ould man's lips can spake nothing now but the truth; an' my blessin' an' my wish, comin' from the Almighty as they do, won't pass away like common words."
Look at them," she proceeded, directing his attention to the house, "look at them all crowdin' to the door and here's Shibby, too, and Bryan himself an' see my mother ready to lep out of herself wid pure joy the Lord be praised that you're safe back!" At this moment his second daughter ran to him, and a repetition of welcome similar to that which he received from Dora took place.
"Nothing that vexed her, I'll go bail," he replied, laughing; "however, as to what I said to her, Shibby, ax me no questions an' I'll tell you no lies." "Becaise I thought she looked as if she was angry," continued Shibby, "an', you know, it must be a strong provocation that would anger her." "Ah, you're fishin' now, Shibby," he replied, "and many thanks for your good intentions.
All at wanst I forgot what happened, till I found myself lyin' upon a car wid the M'Mahons of Edinburg, that lived ten or twelve miles beyant the mountains, at the foot of Carnmore. They knew me, and good right they had, for I had been spakin' to their sister Shibby, but she wasn't for me at the time, although I was ready to kick my own shadow about her, God knows.
"You may all laugh," replied Denis, "but I know such things to have a manin'. When my mother died, didn't my father, the heavens be his bed! see a black coach about a week before it? an' sure from the first day she tuck ill, the dead-watch was heard in the house every night: and what was more nor that, she kept warm until she went into her grave; * an' accordingly, didn't my sisther Shibby die within a year afther?"
"Ay, but his father," continued the innocent girl; "to break into the house at night an' rob him like a robber!" "Well, I say, it's reported that he has been robbin' him these three years in one shape or other," continued Art; "but here's Shibby, let's hear what she'll say. What do you think, shibby?" "About what, Art?" "That Hycy Burke would rob his father!" "Hut, tut!
Art, what puts that into your head? Oh, no, Art not at all to rob his father, an' him has been so indulgent to him!" "Indeed, I agree with you, Shibby," said Bryan; "for although my opinion of Hycy is changed very much for the worse of late, still I can't and won't give in to that." "An what has changed it for the worse?" asked his mother. "You an' he wor very thick together always eh?
Run now, acushla, an' if you fall don't wait to rise; an' Shibby, darlin', do you whang down a lot o' that bacon into rashers, 'your father must be at death's door wid hunger; but wasn't it well that I thought of having the whiskey in, for you see afther Thursday last we didn't know what minute you'd dhrop in on us, Tom, an' I said it was best to be prepared.
He then paused for a few minutes, but appeared to take a comprehensive view of the surrounding country. "But, grandfather," proceeded simple-hearted Shibby, "sure the match between Bryan and Kathleen Cavanagh is broken up, an' they're not to be married at all." "Don't I say, darlin', that they will be married, an' be happy ay, an' may God make them happy! as He will, blessed be His holy name!
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