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"Jem Finigan's public-house was the head-quarters and rallying-point of the Ribbonmen; the Orangemen assembled in that of Joe Sherlock, the master of an Orange lodge. About six o'clock the crowd in the street began gradually to fall off to the opposite ends of the town the Roman Catholics towards the north, and the Protestants towards the south.
Finigan's Dialogue with Hycy The severest tax upon Hycy's powers of invention was, in consequence of his habits of idleness, to find means of occupying his time. Sometimes, it is true, he condescended to oversee the men while at work, but there it was generally found that so far from keeping them to their employment, he was a considerable drawback upon their industry.
Finigan's allusion to Hycy and his companion was justified by the contrast which the appearance of each presented.
Sit down again; ordher in another libation, and I shall make a disclosure that will be worth your waiting for." "You shall have the libation, as you call it, at all events," said Hycy, resuming his seat, but feeling, at the same time, by no means satisfied with the lurking grin which occasionally played over Finigan's features.
"Brian, run up to Micky Lowrie's for your father, An' see, Brian, don't say who's wantin' him, till we give him a start. Mary, come here, acushla," she added to her eldest daughter in a whisper "take these two bottles an' fly up to Peggy Finigan's for the full o' them o' whiskey. Now be back before you're there, or if you don't, that I mightn't, but you'll see what you'll get.
In consequence of an accidental conversation which Teddy Phats, and Finigan the tippling schoolmaster had, concerning Vincent, the stranger I spoke of, who, it appears, lives next to Finigan's school-house, Teddy discovered, through the pedagogue, who, by the way, is abroad at all hours, that the aforesaid Vincent was in the habit of going up every night to the most solitary part of the mountains, but for what purpose, except upon another distillation affair, he could not say."
"When the dinner was over, you would think there was as much left as would sarve a regiment; and sure enough, a right hungry ragged regiment was there to take care of it though, to tell the truth, there was as much taken into Finigan's as would be sure to give us all a rousing supper.
Tom got bully dinner to-day, and bully sleep in de barn, and bully supper, but wasn't sleepy den hicco, hicco." "Well, Tom, what news about what you know?" "In toder house," replied Tom; "him sleeps in Peg Finigan's sometimes, and sometimes in toder again dat is, Mary Mahon's. Him's afeared o' something hard him say so, sure, to ould Peg."
"Bartle," said O'Donovan, "did you take anything since I saw you last?" "Only a share of two naggins wid my brother Antony at Peggy Finigan's." "I noticed it upon you," observed Connor; "but I don't think they did." "An' if they did, too, it's not high thrason, I hope." "No; but, Bartle, I'm obliged to you. You've acted as a friend to me, an' I won't forget it to you."
"Here then," he replied, suiting the action to the word, and throwing a few halfpence into her lap; "go to Peggy Finigan's an' buy yourself a couple of ounces, an' smoke rings round you; and listen to me, go down before you come back to Bamy Keeran's an' see whether he has my shoes done or not, an' tell him from me, that if they're not ready for me tomorrow mornin', I'll get him exkummunicated."
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