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"Good-bye now, Martin," said Anty; "we shall be desperately scolded for talking so long; but it was on my mind to say it all, and I'm betther now it's all over." "Good night, dear Anty," said Martin, "I'll be seeing you to-morrow." "Every day, I hope, Martin, till it's all over. God bless you, God bless you all and you above all.
He started on th' ol' favor-ite, 'Th' Vale iv Avoca'; an' near ivry man in th' crowd had heerd him practisin' it. He wint along splendid till he come to 'shall fade fr'm me heart, an' thin he broke, 'Thry again, says th' crowd; an' he stharted over. He done no betther on th' second whirl. 'Niver say die, Felix, says th' crowd. "Go afther it.
Martin, for my sake, will you look on him as a brother? a wicked, bad, castaway brother; but still as a brother, to be forgiven, and, if possible, redeemed?" "As I hope for glory in Heaven, I will," said Martin; "but I think he'll go far from this; I think he'll quit Dunmore." "Maybe he will; perhaps it's betther he should; but he'll lave his name behind him.
'If ye think, he says, 'that we come over, he says, 'to engage in a six days' go-as-you-please walkin' match, he says, 'ye'd betther go an' have ye'er head looked into, he says. 'Have ye anny British around here? Have ye e'er a Sassenach concealed about ye'er clothes? he says. 'We can't do annything if they won't stand f'r us, says Dorney.
"May the divil fly away wid you," replied Toal; "did you think me a manus, that I'd go to put Art Maguire wid any man that I know? Art Maguire indeed! Now, Jerry, my throoper, do you think I'm come to this time o' day, not to know that there's no man in Ballykeerin, or the parish it stands in an' that's a bigger word that could be called a betther man that Art Maguire?"
Divil sweep the omadhaun that would make his two elbows into a windmill that niver shtops, but is always going. Fair an' aisy goes far in a day. Walkin' is betther than runnin', an' standin' is betther than walkin', an' sittin' is betther than standin', an' lyin' is betther than any o' thim. Twas me owld father said it, an' a thrue wurud he shpoke, rest his sowl in glory."
To be sure he skrewed the last fardin' out of uz, but where was there ever a tithe-procthor that didn't do the same thing? An' sure if he tuck as much as he could from huz, an' gev as little as he could to the parson, wasn't it all so much the betther? Wasn't it weakenin' their fat church and fattening our weak on'? where's the honest Catholic could say a word aginst that?
"He is a pious man," Curran said. "And no wan sees it but God and himself. So much the betther, I say," Judy remarked. "Only thim that had sorra knows how to pray, an' he prays like wan that had his fill of it." The tears came into the man's eyes at the indications of Arthur's love for poor Erin.
Towld me Oi wor to fill mesilf out; an' the sooner I sit about it, the betther, Oi'm afther thinkin'!" "Come along with me and you'll be all right," said the corporal kindly. "You novices will mess here on the middle deck, along with us police, till you pass your bag and hammock drill and get your uniforms. You're only what they calls `unclothed boys' at present, my lads!"
"Ay, betther in a throng room than a thin one; ay, and you promised to meet him at the well to-night; and you kept your word." A woman's courage and determination to persist in falsehood are never so decided and deliberate as when she feels that the suspicion expressed against her is true.
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