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"Ah! by the way, Darby," lending a deaf ear to this observation, "have you heard, within the last day or two, anything of Mr. M'Clutchy's father, Mr. Deaker how he is?" "Why, sir," replied Darby, "I'm tould he's breaking down fast, but the divil a one of him will give up the lady.
Make the most of this rascally world, and of the rascals that are in it, for we are all alike in the grave. Put in Val, then, and don't made an enemy of "Your old friend, "Randal Deaker. "P.S. As to Val, he knows nothing of this transaction I told him I would say so, and I keep my word.
"Eat, drink, and be merry, Tom, for tomorrow we die; but about this pretty bit of goods I tried to price her, but it wouldn't do; and when I pressed hard, what do you think of the little tit, but put herself under the protection of old Priest Roche, and told him I had insulted her." "Who is she, Deaker?" inquired a young fellow with a good deal of libertine interest.
Much to his surprise also, and indeed to his mortification, he found before him two gentlemen, whom Deaker, who it appears had been conscious of his approaching dissolution, had sent for, with his usual shrewdness, to guard and preserve his loose property from his unfortunate housekeeper on the one hand, and his virtuous son Val, on the other.
At the period of which we write Squire Deaker was near eighty, and although feeble and broken down, he still exhibited the remains of a large, coarse, strong-boned animal, not without a vigorous twinkle of low cunning in his eye, and a duplicity of character and principle about his angular and ill-shaped eye-brows which could not be mistaken.
Solomon, who had glanced at the affiliating affidavit made by Susanna, was the first to break the silence. "In truth, my friends," said he, "I fear it is not good to be here; and were it not that I am anxious to witness what is rarely seen, a reprobate and blasphemous death-bed, I would depart even now." After some time Deaker called out "Help me up, Lanty; here, help me up, you whelp."
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