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"Butler here has been telling me of a little political problem that has arisen since I last saw you. I suppose you've heard that Chicago is burning?" "Yes; Cavanagh was just telling me. It looks to be quite serious. I think the market will drop heavily in the morning." "I wouldn't be surprised myself," put in Mollenhauer, laconically.
I shall consider it as a favor, I assure you." "Excuse me, Mr. Burke, but I won't dance any more to-night." "That's hard," he replied, "especially as I came all the way to have that pleasure. Perhaps you will change your mind, Miss Cavanagh?" "I'm not in the habit of changing my mind, Mr. Burke," she replied, "and I don't see any reason why I should do so now.
Taking therefore all these circumstances into consideration, he resolved in any event to temporize a little, and allow the father to suppose that he might be prevailed upon to marry Kathleen Cavanagh. In the course of that evening, after dinner, while his father and he were together and his mother not present, he introduced the subject himself. "I think, Mr.
Kathleen, from a principle of generosity, patronized her young friend, Dora M'Mahon; and Shibby M'Mahon, on the other hand, took Hanna Cavanagh under her protection.
For several months past he could not put his foot out of the door that he was not haunted by honest Gerald Cavanagh, who had only one idea constantly before him, that of raising his daughter to the rank and state in which he knew, or at least calculated that Hycy Burke would keep her. Go where he might, honest Jemmy was attended by honest Gerald, like his fetch.
Hugh, Ross Cavanagh must not get involved with that girl. It's your duty as his superior to warn him." "He's fully grown, my dear, and a bit dictatorial on his own part. I'm a trifle timid about cutting in on his private affairs." "Then I'll do it. Marriage with a girl like that is out of the question. Think what his sisters would say." Redfield smiled a bit satirically.
Those big cattle-men fooled me into taking their side of the war. I staked everything I had on them, and then they railroaded me out of the county. So, you see, I'm double-crossed, no matter where I turn." Every word he uttered made more apparent to Cavanagh that Lee Virginia would derive nothing but pain and disheartenment from a knowledge that her father lived.
A shebeen-man, named Parra Bradagh, father to Barney, whom the reader has already met in the still-house, brought a cask of poteen to the stable, where he disposed of it sub silentio, by which we mean without the knowledge of Gerald Cavanagh, who would not have suffered any such person about his place, had the circumstance been made known to him.
How do you do, Mrs. Cavanagh? How is Gerald and the youngsters?" "Indeed all middlin' well, thank your reverence, barrin' our eldest girl that's a little low spirited for some time past." "Ay, ay, I know the cause of that it's no secret where is she now? If she's in the house let me see her."
Finig O'Finigan," observed James Cavanagh, who was present, "and your words are a credit and an honor to you." "Thanks, James, for the compliment; for it is but truth.
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