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The letter he had given the stranger to Corbet, or Dunphy, had not, he was sorry to find, been productive of the object for which it had been written.
"No matter, friend Dunphy, we'll renew the attack at supper; an easy mind brings a good appetite, which is but natural; it's all the heart of man." "Well, I don't know that," said Dunphy, replying to, the first of the axioms; "I have often aiten a hearty dinner enough when my mind was, God knows, anything but aisy."
It was about a week subsequent to the interview which the stranger had with old Dunphy, unsuccessful as our readers know it to have been, that the latter and his wife were sitting in the back parlor one night after their little shop had been closed, when the following dialogue took place between them: "Well, at all events," observed the old man, "he was the best of them, and to my own knowledge that same saicret lay hot and heavy on his conscience, especially to so good a master and mistress as they were to him.
We found him in full canonicals, as he was to officiate at the function this morning, and with him were Father Dunphy, the parish priest of Arklow, and two or three more robed priests. Father O'Neill, whose face and manner are those of the higher order of the continental clergy, briefly set forth to me his view of the transactions at Coolgreany.
"'Never mind, my boy, said I, 'that's a fault that every day will mend; you'll never grow less; so I consulted with Beck there, and with you, Dunphy, didn't I?" "You did, indeed, Mr. Roberts, and wouldn't do anything till you had spoken to me on the subject." "Eight, Dunphy, right well, you know the rest. 'Education's the point, said I to Beck ignorance is a bad inheritance.
"What's your business, sir, with Denis Dunphy?" "That, my friend, can be mentioned only to himself; are you the man?" "Well, and what if I be?" "But I must be certain that you are." There was another pause, and a second scrutiny, after which he replied, "May be my name in Denis Dunphy."
"I'm very much obliged to you, Mr. Dunphy; but you overrate me a great deal too much," replied Mrs. Roberts. "No such thing, Beck; you're wrong there, for once; the thing couldn't be done by fife and drum! it couldn't; and no man has a better right to know that than myself and I say it." Sam, like all truly brave men, never boasted of his military exploits, although he might well have done so.
Beck's the queen of women, upon my soul she is; and all I have to say is, that if you tell me the secret, in half an hour's time she'll be as well acquainted with it as either of us. I have no notion, Dunphy, at this time of life, to separate my mind from Beck's; my conscience, sir, is my store-room; she has a key for it, and, by fife and drum, I'm not going to take it from her now.
As the time fixed for the function was at hand, we were obliged to leave without seeing Father Dunphy. From the Presbytery we drove to the scene of the evictions. These evictions were in July. Mr. Holmes witnessed them, and gave me a lively account of the affair. The "battle" was not a very tough one. Mr. Davitt, who was present, stood under a tree very quietly watching it all.
Come, Dunphy, that's what I never did, unless the word and countersign when on duty, and, by fife and drum, I never will keep your secret then; I don't want it, for as sure as I hear it, so shall she. And is it afraid of old Beck you are? By fife and drum, sir, old Beck has more honor than either of us, and would as soon take a fancy to a coward as betray a secret.
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