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Patrick was buried in its cathedral, Ballyards, magnificently imperturbed, murmured: "Your population is goin' down!"; nor does it manifest any respect for Greenry, which has a member of parliament to itself and has twice the population of Ballyards. "It's an ugly hole," says Ballyards, "an' it's full of Papishes!"
He was too early for the Ballyards train, and he went for a walk to fill the time of waiting. He passed the restaurant where Maggie Carmichael had been employed, and saw that a new name was on the lintel of the door. "Well, I hope she's happy with her peeler!" he said to himself.
You must know that I feel more for you than for my husband!..." "You ought to be ashamed of yourself for saying such a thing, Mrs. Cream. I want you to understand that I'm not that sort. I come from Ballyards, and we don't do things like that there. Forby, I'm not in love with you.
He had chosen this seat so that he might be able to hurry out of the theatre quickly, without disturbing anyone, if he should have to leave before the play was ended to catch the last train to Ballyards. A boy about his own age was sitting next to him, and this boy asked John to let him have a look at his programme. "Did you ever see this piece before?"
Ballyards never yielded an inch of its pride of place to Millreagh or to Pickie. "What's an oul' harbour when there's no boat in it?" Ballyards said to Millreagh; and, "Sure, the man makes his livin' sellin' sausages!" it said to Pickie when Pickie bragged of the great grocer who had joined the Yacht Club in order that he might issue a challenge for the Atlantic Cup.
"And then there's the novel I wrote when I was at home," he concluded. "But you've heard nothing of it yet. As far as I can see you've done little here that you couldn't have done at home!" "Oh, yes I have. I've learned a great deal more than I could ever have learned in Ballyards. And I've met Eleanor!" "H'm!" she said, rising from her seat. "I'm going to my bed now.
I'd have told my mother before she went back to Ballyards!" "I'll write and tell her myself," said Eleanor. "I'd like to tell her myself!" "I'm going to be married," John said to Hinde that night. "I thought as much," Hinde replied. "Why?" "Well, when a man does one dam-fool thing, he generally follows it up with another. You lose your job on the Sensation, and then you get engaged to be married.
I'll help you!" "The thing's absurd!" "No, it isn't. I like being in the shop. I've helped Uncle William a lot. I've made suggestions!..." "My mother put this idea into your head!" "No, she didn't. She's talked to me about Ballyards, of course, and the MacDermotts and the shop, but she has not asked me to stay here. It's my own idea.
McCaughan, who was manager of the Ballyards National School, went specially to the house of Mr. Cairnduff, the headmaster of the school, to consult him on the subject. He said that something would have to be done about the matter.
It was only during the reading half-hour that his mind was at ease in school that week, for then he could let his thoughts roam from Ballyards to Belfast, and fill his eyes with visions of Maggie.
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