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Updated: June 17, 2025
"Who would I settle in life if I wouldn't settle my only son?" replied the other; "who else is there to get all I have?" "That's very true," observed the Bodagh; "but state plainly what you'll do for him on his marriage." "Do you consint to the marriage all of yees?" "That's not the question," said the other. "Divil a word I'll answer till I know whither yees do or not," said Fardorougha.
With smiling face and glistening eyes Una passed out of the room, scarcely sensible whether she walked, ran, or flew, while the others went to renew the discussion with Pardorougha. "Well," said the miser, "you found out, I suppose, that she can't do widout him?" "Provided we consent to the marriage," asked the Bodagh, "how will you settle your son in life?"
Many private meetings they held among themselves upon those important matters, at which Dandy Duff and Ned M'Cormick attended, as was their duty; and well was it for them the part they took in defeating Bartle Flanagan, and serving the Bodagh and his family, was unknown to their confederates.
I am bewildered. After this, who should ever despair of the goodness of God, or think that the trial he sends but for a time is to last always?" "Bridget," said the gracious Bodagh, "we must have a glass of punch; an' upon my reputaytion, Oona, we'll drink to his speedy return."
God bless you, young man, you're a credit yourself to any parents." "An' we have nothin' to say aginst your son, nor aginst your wife aither," replied the Bodagh; "an' if your own name was as clear if you wor looked upon as they are tut, I'm spakin' nonsense! How do I know whether ever your son and my daughter spoke a word to one another or not?"
O'Brien was, out of the sphere of her own family, a person of much greater pretension than the Bodagh her husband; and, though in a different manner, not less so in the discharge of her duty as a wife, a mother, or a mistress.
"From Una's own lips, father." The Bodagh paced to and fro in much agitation; one hand in his small clothes pocket, and the other twirling his watch-key as rapidly as he could. The mother, in the meantime, had thrown herself into a chair, and gave way to a violent fit of grief. "And you have this from Una's own lips?"
That said Connor O'Donovan, having seduced the affections of a young woman named Una O'Brien, daughter of a man called Michael O'Brien, otherwise Bodagh Buie, or the Yellow Churl, demanded her in marriage from her father and family, who unanimously rejected his pretensions.
To-night we'll make up a plan that'll outdo Bodagh Buie. Before you come home, Connor, throw a stone or two in that gap, to prevent the cows from gettin' into the hay; it won't cost you much throuble. But, Connor, did you ever see sich a gut as Bartle has?
"Well, but I know he's in love with some one, for he told me so; poor fellow, I'm bound, my dear Una, to show him any kindness in my power." After some further conversation, it was once more decided that Fardorougha should, on the next day, see the Bodagh and his wife, in order to ascertain whether their consent could be obtained to the union of our young and anxious lovers.
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