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"I don't know how it is," said he, "but some way or other I don't feel comfortable about this business: Fethertonge is very civil and very dacent, and is well spoken of in general; but for all that there's always a man here an' there that says he's not to be depended on."
"I trust in God he was, sir," replied M'Mahon; "so far as I and mine is consarned, we have raison to wish it; he didn't forget us, Mr. Fethertonge." "No," said the other, after some pause, "he did not indeed forget you, M'Mahon." "I tuck the liberty of callin' down, sir," proceeded M'Mahon, "about the leases he spoke of, an' to know how soon we may expect to have them filled."
Now, what would you say if both I and Fethertonge knew the whole plot long before it was put in practice?" As he spoke, he screwed his hard keen features into a most knavish expression. "Yes," he added; "and I can tell you that both the agent and I forwarned M'Mahon against suffering himself to engage in anything illegal which was our duty as his friends you know hem!"
"Not he, Maria," said her brother, awakening out of a reverie; "but, uncle, as to Hycy Burke I don't hem." "You don't what?" asked the other, rising and staring at him. His nephew looked at his sister, and was silent. "You don't mean what, man? always speak out. Here, help me on with this coat. Fethertonge and I are taking a ride up tomorrow as far as Ahadarra."
Fethertonge, do you in the mane time see that a lease is prepared for M'Mahon; an' see, at all events, that my wishes shall be carried into effect. Sich was his last words to me, but he was a corpse on the next day but one afterwards." "It's jist as good," they exclaimed with one voice; "for what is betther, or what can be betther than the word of an Irish gentleman?"
"Come some other day, M'Mahon," said Fethertonge; "do you not see that we are going out to ride now going on our canvass? Come to my office some other day; Mr. Chevydale will remain for a considerable time in the country now, and you need not feel so eager in the matter." "Yes, come some other day, Mr.
On principle, however, I make it a point never to ask anything from my brother." "Will I bring you the Petition, sir?" asked Bryan. "Fetch me the Petition." "And Bryan," said Fethertonge, raising his finger at him as if by way of warning and laughing "hark ye, let this be the last."
A slight sense of uncertainty and doubt crept over him, and in spite of every effort at confidence, he found that that which he had placed in Fethertonge, if it did not diminish, was most assuredly not becoming stronger. Bryan M'Mahon is Cautioned against Political Temptation He Seeks Major Vanston's Interest with the Board of Excise.
Indeed, so full was his mind of the circumstance, that forgetting all his suspicions of Fethertonge, and urged by the ingenuous impulse of an honest heart, he could not prevent himself in the surprise and agitation of the moment from detailing the conversation which he had just had with the gauger. "That is singular enough," said Fethertonge "he named Hycy Burke, then?" "He did, sir."
Fethertonge, that to a man like me, that's layin' out and expendin' money every day upon Adaharra farm, and my father the same way upon Carriglass I say, to a man like me, to be layin' out his money, when you know yourself that if the present landlord should refuse to carry his father's dying words into effect or, as you said this minute yourself, sir, if some enemy should turn you against me, amn't I and my father and the whole family liable to be put out, notwithstanding all the improvements we've made, and the money we've spent in makin' them?"
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