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"Is Misther O'Brien widin?" inquired the usurer, shrewdly availing himself of the hint he received from the servant. "My father is," replied John; "have the goodness to step in." Fardorougha entered immediately, followed by young O'Brien, who said, "Father, this is Mr. O'Donovan, who, it appears, has some important business with the family."
Let us have no more talk about it now. Shouldn't you like to go into the garden and pick some strawberries all for yourself?" "No; I'd like to go widin'." "Toddie," said Mrs. Burton, "don't let me hear one more word about riding." "Well, I want to go." "Toddie, I will certainly have to punish you if you say any more on this subject, and that will make me very unhappy.
Don't lie there, sir, looking so like a whipped hound. You hear? You are safe for the present." He had hardly finished, when there came a rustling of feet outside, then hurried whispers, then a knock, and a summons. "We'd like to spake wid the curnel, av ye plase." "I am here; what do ye want?" Mohun growled. "We want the 'torney. We know he's widin." "Then I'm afraid you'll be disappointed.
"Feel for him; me! oh, little you know how my heart's in him; but any way, I'm an unhappy man; everything in the world wide goes against me; but oh, my darlin' boy Connor, Connor, my son, to be tould that I don't feel for you well you know, avourneen machree well you know that I feel for you, and 'ud kiss the track of your feet upon the ground: Oh, it's cruel to tell it to me; to say sich a thing to a man that his heart's braakin' widin him for your sake; but, sir, you sed this minute that you could defend him wid one lawyer?"
"Good-evenin' to you kindly, sir," responded old Felix from his fireside corner; "and wudn't you be steppin' widin?" "I'm on'y axin' me way to the place below there Ballybrosna beyond Duffclane," said the old man; "it's the road I must be steppin', for I'm more than a thrifle late." But he came slowly forward into the room as if lured by the fire, at which he looked hungrily.
"Before God in glory, your honor, an' in the presence of his Lordship here, I only got about what 'ud make betther nor half a male widin the last day, sir.
Carbery sat in the three-cornered arm-chair, with the sun-dazzle off a burnished mug on the dresser shimmering into her eyes, and making her blink quaintly, she said, with rather severe solemnity, that "she hoped the young fellow had had time to repint of his sins, or else it was very apt to be a bad look-out for him, and he after comin' widin a shavin' of takin' another man's life no time at all ago, so to spake ne'er a chance but it would be clear in everybody's recollection."
"I dunno rightly," said his informant, "but a goodish step it's apt to be, for people's better than a couple of weeks sailin' there, I'm tould." Con meditated a little more before he put another question. "Would you be widin hearin' out there of the folk talkin' foolish?" he inquired. "Why, tub-be sure, man, what 'ud hinder you that you wouldn't hear them talkin' same as anywheres else?"
"At any rate, Misther Finigan, give the boys a holiday to-morrow, and be down wid us airly." "There is not," replied Finigan, who was now pretty well advanced, "I believe widin the compass of written or spoken language and I might on that subject appeal to Mr.
Widin the last two or three days he has bought himself a new hat, a new pair o' brogues, and a pair o' span-new breeches and, upon my conscience, it wasn't from me or mine he got the money to buy them." The conjurer looked solemnly into his book for some minutes, and then raising his head, fastened his cold, glassy, glittering eyes on the farmer with a glance that filled him with awe.
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