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"No, Thady, the Lord knows we can none of us do that and, tell the truth now, only I stopped the words in your throat about poor Feemy's business, weren't you just going to be dunning me for the bit of rent? out with it now." "It's little heart I have now to be saying to you what I was going to do, for my soul's sick within me, with all the throubles that are on me.
Ussher understood Thady's character tolerably well; and though he had no real sympathy for his sufferings, still he had manly feeling enough to wish to save him, as Feemy's brother, from the danger into which he believed him so likely to fall.
"But he has downright proposed for her." "No! Father John," said Louey. "Has he though, really!" exclaimed Lyddy. "Then, why, in the name of the blessed Virgin, don't he marry her?" said the mother. "That's poor Feemy's difficulty, you see, Mrs. McKeon.
Feemy's tears dropped quickly on the little things she was packing, and the poor girl soon followed the example her mistress gave her. "Ochone! ochone!
After thinking over it alone there in Feemy's sitting-room for an hour, he determined that all he could do was to go back again to his only friend, Father John. When Feemy slammed the door, as she did at the end of her violent oration above given, she betook herself to her bedroom, and began to cry.
O'Malley then gave as exact an account of the occurrence as he had been able to collect from Thady, from Feemy's evidence before the coroner, and from such words as Mrs. McKeon had been able to extract from Feemy on the subject. He then continued,
Father John instantly walked up to them, and if he had learnt it from nothing else, soon discovered from Feemy's tears, that something was the matter. "How are you, Thady?" he said, putting out his hand to take the young man's, which was given with apparent reluctance; "how are you? is there anything wrong, that Feemy is crying so?"
"Whisht, now, Thady; I don't mean that at all but you get so hot but what I really mean is this; though no actual harm might come of it, it doesn't give a girl a good name through the country, for her to be carrying on with a young man too long, and that all for nothing; and Feemy's too pretty and too good, to have a bad word about her.
"And are you afther making me stay at home all the blessed day, and sending Captain Ussher all the way back to Mohill, and he having come over here by engagement to walk with me," this was a fib of Feemy's, "and all to ask me where I got a new collar?" "May be I was, Feemy, and may be I wasn't; but I suppose there isn't any harum in my asking the question, or in you answering it?"
"Drunk or sober, you may choose now; it's either me or him; but if you disgrace yourself, you shall not disgrace me!" Father John took Feemy's arm on his, and telling the people to go back to their dancing, laid his hand on Thady's shoulder, and said,
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