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"Bedad, Ellish, you're the greatest headpiece in all Europe. Murdher alive, woman, what a fine counsellor you'd make. An' suppose he did offer, Ellish, what 'ud you be sayin' to him?" "Why, that 'ud depind entirely upon what he's able to give her they say he has money. It 'ud depind, too, upon whether Dan has any likin' for her or not."
Dan, under the advice of his mother, purchased a piece of ground most advantageously located, as the site of a mill, whereon an excellent one was built; and as a good mill had been long a desideratum in the country, his success was far beyond his expectations. Every speculation, in fact, which Ellish touched, prospered.
Ellish felt that to contradict him on the spot must lessen both him and herself in the opinion of the landlord, a circumstance that would have given her much pain. "I'm sorry to hear that, Connell," said Mr. Eccles; "you bear the character of being strictly sober in your habits. You must have been early at the bottle, too, which makes your apology rather unhappy.
"Be guided by her, Peter, if you're wise, she's a wife you ought to be proud of." "Thrue for you, sir; divil resave the word o' lie in that, any how. Come, Ellish; come, you deludher, I'm wid you." "God bless your honor, sir, an' we're ob'laged to you for you kindness an' patience wid the likes o' us." "I say ditto, your honor. Long life an' glory to you every day your honor rises!"
"Well, the best way is to say nothin', an' to hear nothin', till his Reverence spates out, an' thin we'll see what can be done." Ellish's sagacity had not misled her. In a few months afterwards Father Mulcahy was asked by young Dan Connell to dine; and as he and holiest Ellish were sitting together, in the course of the evening, the priest broached the topic as follows: "Mrs.
Soon after his marriage, the person who had for many years kept the head inn of the next town died, and the establishment was advertised for sale. Ellish was immediately in action. Here was an opportunity of establishing the second son in a situation which had enabled the late proprietor of it to die nearly the richest man in the parish.
No, indeed; we wor too long together, Pether, and lived too happily wid one another, for you to have the heart to think of sich a thing!" "No, in troth, Ellish, I would be long sarry to do it. It's displasin' to you, achree, an' I won't say it. God spare you to us!
An', you phanix of beauty, you managed the childhre, the crathurs, the same way an' a good way it is, in throth." "Pether, wor you ever thinkin' o' Father Muloahy's sweetness to us of late?" "No, thin, the sorra one o' me thought of it. Why, Ellish?" "Didn't you obsarve that for the last three or four months he's full of attintions to us?
The progress of Peter and Ellish was in another point of view a good study for him who wishes to look into human nature, whilst adapting itself to the circumstances through which it passes.
Divil resave the morsel of credit will be got or given in this house, while there is stick or stone of it together, barrin' them that axes it has the ready money. "Pettier X his mark Connell, "Ellish X her mark Connell." This regulation, considering everything, was a very proper one. It occasioned much mirth among Peter's customers; but Peter cared little about that, provided he made the money.
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