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Updated: June 11, 2025
"No, I tell you; I say you are not. There is but one person in the house that knows that." "You're right, Art darlin' you're right. Come here, Atty; go to your father; you know what to say, avick." "Well, Art," he would continue, "do you know who your father is?" "Ay do I; he's one of the great Fermanagh Maguires the greatest family in the kingdom. Isn't that it?"
I thought you liked fine clothes, and married papa that he might give you them: Phillis said so." "Phillis was mistaken." More than that Christian did not answer; indeed, she hardly took in what the child said, being fully engrossed with her charge. Letitia spoke again. "Are you really sorry for Atty? Aunt Henrietta said you did not care for any of us." "Not care for any of you!"
It was an unlucky day to me I ever seen the face of one of you here, Atty, I've some money; some strange fellow at the inn below stood to me for the price of a naggin, an' that blasted Barney Scaddhan wouldn't let me in, bekase, he said, I was a disgrace to his house, the scoundrel." "The same house was a black sight to you, Art." "Here, Atty, go off and, get me a naggin."
Arthuret, indeed, was making herself the best hostess that a lady who had served no apprenticeship could be to all alike, but Arthurine or 'Atty, as Daisy and Pansy were heard shouting to her all in white flannels, a man all but the petticoats seemed to be absorbed in a little court of the second-rate people of Bonchamp, some whom, as Mrs.
"Atty," said he, in a low voice, which was rapidly sinking; "put his cheek over to mine" he added to his wife, "then raise my right arm, an' put it about his neck; Atty," he proceeded, "won't you give me one last word before I depart?" His wife observed that as he spoke a large tear trickled down his cheek.
"'You had better give him a hint, then, said Jack, 'some way, or he'll be done for, as sure as you're stretched on that bed; but don't mintion names, if you wish to keep me from being murdhered for what I did. I must be off now, for I stole out of the barn:* and only that Atty Laghy's gone along wid the master to the fair, to help him to sell the two coults, I couldn't get over at all.
The father by that unhappy blow did not kill his body, but he killed his mind; he arose from his bed a mild, placid, harmless idiot, silent and inoffensive the only words he was almost heard to utter, with rare exceptions, being those which had been in his mind when he was dealt the woful blow: "Daddy, won't you come to bed wid me, wid your own Atty?"
"Atty, Atty" he then shook his head; "you see," he added, addressing those who stood about him, "that he doesn't hear me no, he doesn't hear me that ear was never deaf to me before, but it's deaf now;" he then seized his hand, and raised it, but it was insensible to his touch, and would have fallen on the bed had he let it go. "You see," he proceeded, "that his hand doesn't know mine any longer!
I have no hope either here or hereafther divil a morsel of hope. Isn't that comfortable? eh? ha, ha, ha" another hideous laugh. "Well, no matter; we'll dhrink it out, at all events. Where's Atty, wid the whiskey? Oh, here he is! That's a good boy, Atty." "Oh, mammy darlin'," exclaimed the child, on seeing the blood streaming from her temple "mammy darlin', what happened you?"
Atty and sun and moon, and worshipped beauty and strength more than St. Atty or sun and moon.
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