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"If your mother goes, let her go by herself," said he; "for I'll not interfere in't if she does. I'll take the dirty Bodagh and his fat wife my own way, which I can't do if Honor comes to be enibbin' and makin' little o' me afore them. Maybe I'll pull down their pride for them better than you think, and in a way they're not prepared for; them an' their janting car!"
"And I suppose if she hadn't been undher the one roof wid us that it's ourselves he'd burn," observed her mother. "Father, tell me the worst at once whatever it may be; how could I guess the villain or villains who destroyed our property?" "Villain, indeed! you may well say so," returned the Bodagh. "That villain is no other than Connor O'Donovan!"
"I'll tell you what I'll do, then," said the Bodagh "let us see the ould man himself, and if he settles his son dacently in life, as he can do if he wishes, why, I won't see the poor, foolish, innocent girl breaking her heart." Una, who had sat with her face still averted, now ran to her father, and, throwing her arms about his neck, wept aloud, but said nothing.
Long, long was the journey he tuck to see that son, an', as he tould me the day he whint into the ship, to die in his boy's arms; for he said heaven wouldn't be heaven to him, if he died anywhere else." Nogher's eyes filled as he spoke, and we need scarcely say that neither the Bodagh nor his son esteemed him the less for his attachment to Connor O'Donovan and his family.
In the course of the following day Nogher M'Cormick presented himself to the Bodagh and his son, neither of whom felt much difficulty in divining the cause of his visit. "Well," said Nogher, after the first usual civilities had passed, "glory be to God, gintlemen, this is desperate fine weather for the season barrin' the wet" John smiled, but the plain matter-of-fact Bodagh replied,
Both, therefore, left them to themselves; and we, in like manner, must allow that delicious interview to be sacred only to themselves, and unprofaned by the gaze or presence of a spectator. The Bodagh and his wife were highly gratified at the steps their children had taken to provide for the comfort of Fardorougha and his wife.
The affectionate mother's eyes filled with tears of pride and delight, on hearing that her handsome son was loved by the beautiful daughter of Bodagh Buie, and she could not help exclaiming, in the enthusiasm of the moment,
"An' no thanks to you for that, Fardorougha," said the Bodagh. "No, no; I'll never buy a pig in a poke. If you won't act generously by your son, go home, in the name of goodness, and let us hear no more about it." "Why, why?" asked the miser, "are yees mad to miss what I can leave him? If you knew how much it is, you'd snap ; but God help me! what am I sayin'? I'm poorer than anybody thinks.
He immediately went in and communicated the circumstance to his wife. "Honor," said he, "here is Bodagh Buie's son comin' up to the house what on earth can bring the boy here?" This was the first day on which his wife had been able to rise from her sick bed. She was consequently feeble, and, physically speaking, capable of no domestic exertion.
As yet, however, Una had not come, nor could Connor, on surveying the large massy farm house of the Bodagh, perceive any appearance of light, or hear a single sound, however faint, to break the stillness in which it slept.
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