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"Why, I was thinking, my lord, av' I could get some lawyer here to draw up a deed, just settling all Anty's property on herself when I die, and on her children, av' she has any, so that I couldn't spend it you know; she could sign it, and so could I, before we started; and then I'd feel she'd been traited as well as tho' she'd all the friends in Connaught to her back."
When Anty's sobs commenced, Martin had gone over to her to comfort her, "Ah, Anty, dear," he whispered to her, "shure you'd not be minding what such a fellow as he'd be saying to you? shure he's jist paid for all this he's only sent here by Barry to thry and frighten you," but it was of no avail: Daly had succeeded at any rate in making her miserable, and it was past the power of Martin's eloquence to undo what the attorney had done.
The thoughts of such a catastrophe had robbed Barry of half the pleasure which the rumours of his sister's dangerous position had given him. He had not received any direct intimation of Anty's state, but had heard through the servants that she was ill very ill dangerously "not expected," as the country people call it; and each fresh rumour gave him new hopes, and new life.
She seemed, however, in spite of the ill-treatment which she had undergone, to be in a serene and happy state of mind. She shook Anty's two hands in hers, and told her to make herself "snug and asy where she was, like a dear girl, and to fret for nothing, for no one could hurt or harum her, and she undher Mary Kelly's roof."
"If you've a mind to be a tenant of mine, Colligan, I'll keep a look out for you. The land's crowded now, but there's a lot of them cottier devils I mean to send to the right about. They do the estate no good, and I hate the sight of them. But you know how the property's placed, and while Anty's in this wretched state, of course I can do nothing." "Will you bear it in mind though, Lynch?
"You see, my lord," he concluded by saying, "it'd be a great thing to be shut of Barry entirely out of the counthry, and to have poor Anty's mind at ase about it, should she iver live to get betther; but thin, I don't like to have dailings with the divil, or any one so much of his colour as Barry Lynch." "This is a very grave matter, Martin, and takes some little time to think about.
"Well, Nelly," said the prophetic Sally, boding evil in her anger for, considering how long she had been in the family, she had thought herself entitled to hear Anty's ravings; "mind, I tell you, good won't come of this. The Virgin prothect us from all harum! it niver war lucky to have sthrangers dying in the house." "But shure Miss Anty's no stranger."
"What?" said Colligan, apparently not understanding him, "a lease for perpetuity at how much an acre?" "Sixpence a penny a pepper-corn just anything you please. But it's all on Anty's dying. While she's alive I can do nothing for the best friend I have." "By the Almighty above us," said the doctor, almost in a whisper, "I believe the wretched man means me to murder her his own sister!" "Murder?
He had been horribly anxious for a termination to Anty's sufferings; horribly impatient to feel himself possessor of the whole.
"Well; didn't he try to do as bad before?" "It wouldn't do, I tell you," continued Martin, "not to let him see her; that is, av Anty wishes it." It ended in the widow being sent into Anty's room, to ask her whether she had any message to send to her brother.
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