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Updated: June 16, 2025
"Will you dine with me to-day, Colligan? I'm so down in the mouth, so deucedly hipped, it will be a charity." "Well," said Colligan, "I don't care if I do. I must go down to your sister in the evening, and I shall be near her here." "Yes, of course; you'll be near her here, as you say: come at six, then. By the bye, couldn't you go to Anty first, so that we won't be disturbed over our punch?"
I'll tell you what: had my father bad luck to him for an old rogue not made such a will as he did, I'd 've treated Anty as well as any parson of 'em all would treat an old maid of a sister; but I'm not going to have her put over my head this way. Come, doctor, confound all humbug. I say it openly to you to please me, Anty must never come out of that bed alive."
"You and I, Colligan, are men of the world, and too wide awake for all the old woman's nonsense people talk. What can I, or what could you in my place, care for a half-cracked old maid like Anty, who's better dead than alive, for her own sake and everybody's else; unless it is some scheming ruffian like young Kelly there, who wants to make money by her?"
However, they passed the evening very comfortably, quite sufficiently so to make Anty feel that the kindly, humble friendship of the inn was infinitely preferable to the miserable grandeur of Dunmore House; and it is probable that all the lovemaking in the world would not have operated so strongly in Martin's favour as this feeling.
Come, Anty, look up; there's nothing in all this to vex you." But neither son nor mother were able to soothe the poor young woman. The very presence of an attorney was awful to her; and all the jargon which Daly had used, of juries, judges, trials, and notices, had sounded terribly in her ears.
She didn't tell him that the King and Queen were coming, for Sandy was a bashful boy and she was afraid this would frighten him. Now the King and Queen had heard reports far and wide of the honesty and goodness of Anty Hill and her nephew Sandy. If there were any Ants sick in the kingdom Anty Hill and Sandy did something to help them.
The truth was now obliged to come out, or at any rate, part of it: so Terry answered, that Miss Anty was out, and had the keys with her. Miss Anty was so rarely out, that Barry instantly trembled again. Had she gone to a magistrate, to swear against him? Had she run away from him? Had she gone off with Martin? "Where the d l's she gone, Terry?" said he, in his extremity.
But she's so 'cute she partly guesses; and I think Meg let slip something. The girls and Anty are thick as thiefs since old Sim died; though they couldn't be at the house much since Barry came home, and Anty daren't for her life come down to the shop." "Did mother say anything about the schame?" "Faix, not much; but what she did say, didn't show she'd much mind for it.
"Indeed I do," said the parson; "but for all that, she wasn't the best bitch in the pack: she hadn't half the nose of Gaylass." "But, as I was saying, Armstrong, it would be a great thing to rid the country of Barry Lynch." "Indeed it would." "And there'd be nothing then to prevent young Kelly marrying Anty at once." "Make him give his consent in writing before you let him go," said Armstrong.
And will I go up, and be bringing Miss Anty down, ma'am?" "Wait a while. Sit to the fire there, and warm your shins. You're a good girl. I'll go and get on my shoes and stockings, and my cloak, and bonnet. I must go up wid you myself, and ask yer misthress down, as she should be asked. They'll be telling lies on her 'av she don't lave the house dacently, as she ought."
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