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Just before Anty's illness had become so serious, Daly called, and had succeeded in reconciling both Martin and the widow to himself; but he had not quite made them agree to his proposal. The widow, indeed, was much averse to it. She wouldn't deal with such a Greek as Barry, even in the acceptance of a boon.
I wondher, Martin, you haven't got more pluck in you!" "Oh! bother, Meg. You're thinking of nothing but kissing and slobbhering. Anty's not the same as you and Jane, and doesn't be all agog for such nonsense!" "I tell you, Martin, Anty's a woman; and, take my word for it, what another girl likes won't come amiss to her. Besides, why don't you spake to her?"
The doctor thanked him for his good opinion. "Oh! I'm not blarneying you; upon my soul I'm not; that's not the way with me at all; and when you know me better you'll say so, and you may be sure you shall have the farm by Michaelmas." And then, in a voice which he tried to make as unconcerned as possible, he continued: "By the bye, Colligan, when do you think this affair of Anty's will be over?
But come, don't keep her waiting; and, whatever you do, don't stay long; every word she spakes is killing her." Martin followed his sister into the sick-room, and, gently taking Anty's offered hand, asked her in a whisper, what he could do for her.
"That's neither here nor there, but they did it; and, when the old fool was dead, they got this Moylan made Anty's agent: and then, the hag of a mother comes up here, before daylight, and bribes the servant, and carries her off down to her filthy den, which she calls an inn; and when I call to see my sister, I get nothing but insolence and abuse." "And when did this happen?
She'll never make up her mind to go before the priest, unless you say something sthronger to her. Jist tell her, plump out, you're ready and willing, and get the thing done before Lent. What's to hindher you? shure, you know," she added, in a whisper, "you'll not get sich a fortune as Anty's in your way every day.
"Will you always think and spake of Barry will you always act to him and by him, and for him, not as a man whom you know and dislike, but as my brother your own Anty's only brother? Whatever he does, will you thry to make him do betther? Whatever troubles he's in, will you lend him your hand? Come what come may to him, will you be his frind? He has no frind now.
"And ye're afther telling him where Miss Anty's gone, Terry?" inquired the injured fair one. "Divil a tell for me thin, shure, he may find it out hisself, widout my telling him." "Faix, it's he'll be mad thin, when he finds she's taken up with the likes of the widdy Kelly!" "And ain't she betther there, nor being murthered up here? He'd be killing her out and out some night."
Though for many years he had courted the public in vain, his neighbours had at last learned to know and appreciate him; and, at the time of Anty's illness, the inhabitants of three parishes trusted their corporeal ailments to his care, with comfort to themselves and profit to him. Nevertheless, there were many things about Doctor Colligan not calculated to inspire either respect or confidence.
Let Barry send what messages he plazes; I tell you it's all moonshine; he can't hurt the hair of your head, nor Anty's neither. Go asy, and let Mr Daly say what he has to say, and have done with it." "It's asy to say 'go asy' but who's to sit still and be tould sich things as that? Rob Anty Lynch indeed!"
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