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The parzon has has been telling my dooiney molla to do as I have done today. He can't. Begging pardon of the ladies, there's only one woman on the island fit for him, and I've got her." At this word, uttered with an air of life-long familiarity, twenty clay pipes lost their heads by collision with the table, and Pete was interrupted by roars of laughter.
"But if my dooiney molla can't marry my wife, there's one thing he can do for her he can make her house his home in Ramsey when he goes to Douglas for good and comes down here to the coorts once a fortnight." Kate laughed more immoderately than ever; but Philip, with a look of alarm, half rose from his seat, and said across the table, "There's my aunt at Ballure, Pete."
Hip, hip, hurrah!" At the entrance to the town an evergreen arch had been erected. It bore an inscription in Manx: "Dooiney Vannin, lhiat myr hoilloo" "Man of Man, success as thou deservest." The carriage had slacked down to a walk. "Drive quicker," cried Philip. "The streets are crowded, your Excellency," said Jem-y-Lord.
They call him the Dooiney Molla literally, the "man-praiser;" and his primary function is that of an informal, unmercenary, purely friendly and philanthropic matchmaker, introduced by the young man to persuade the parents of the young woman that he is a splendid fellow, with substantial possessions or magnificent prospects, and entirely fit to marry her.
When he was not at work in Douglas he was expected to be at home with his aunt at Ballure. But neither absence nor the lapse of years served to lift him out of the reach of temptation. He had one besetting provocation to remembrance one duty which forbade him to forget Kate his pledge to Pete, his office as Dooiney Molla. Had he not vowed to keep guard over the girl? He must do it.
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