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He had the reputation of being wealthy, and in fact was so; indeed, of the two, those who had reason to know, considered that he held the weightier purse; his name was Cooney Finigan, and the object of his visit to Murray their conversation, however, will sufficiently develop that.
Hycy," replied Finigan, emptying his glass, "that you would enthertain no apprehension in placing confidence in me?" "Not the slightest," replied Hycy; "I believe you to be the very soul of honor; and, besides, are you not my old master? As you say yourself, did I not break grammatical ground, under you?" "The soul of honor," replied the pedagogue, complacently "that is excellently said.
"Finigan," said Hycy "I beg your pardon, O'Finigan the great O'Finigan, Philomath are you a good judge of beauty?" "Why, then, Mr. Hycy," replied the pedagogue, "I think, above all subjects, that a thorough understanding of that same comes most natural to an Irishman. It is a pleasant topic to discuss at all times." "Much pleasanter than marriage, I think," said Clinton, smiling. "Ah, Mr.
"Yes," proceeded Finigan, "unfortunate devils whose obstinacy has been streaked by a black mark, or which ought rather to be termed a black and blue mark, for that is an abler and more significant illustration, Poor quadrupeds who have lived their whole miserable lives as married men under an iron dynasty; and who know that the thunderings of Jupiter himself, if he were now in vogue, would be mere music compared to the fury of a conjugal tongue when agitated by any one of the thousand causes that set it a-going so easily.
"Gintlemen," said Finigan, now staggering down towards the parties, "I am a man of pacific principles, acquainted wid the larned languages, wid mathematics, wid philosophy, the science of morality according to Fluxions I grant you, I'm not college-bred; but, gintlemen, I never invied the oysther in its shell for, gintlemen, I'm not ashamed of it, but I acquired I absorbed my laming, I may say, upon locomotive principles."
Finigan, the schoolmaster, was also present; and as he claimed acquaintance with the classics, and could understand and read with something like correctness the Latin offices, which were frequently repeated on these occasions it would be utterly impossible to describe the lofty scorn and haughty supercilious contempt with which he contemplated poor Dennis, who kept muttering away at the Confiteor and De Profundis with a barbarity of pronunciation that rendered it impossible for human ears to understand a single word he said.
Cavanagh, "an' of course you spake as a friend." "Yes," said Finigan, "I always was a friend of his, because I always knew his honesty, his love of truth, his hatred of a mane action, ay, and his generosity and courage. I knew him from the very egg, I may say ab ovo Mrs. Cavanagh; it was I instilled his first principles into him. Oh! I know well! I never had a scholar I was so proud out of.
Hanna observed, or rather we should say, felt, that as Finigan proceeded with his reminiscences of M'Mahon's school-boy days and the enumeration of his virtues, her sister's heart and bosom quivered with deep and almost irrepressible emotion.
It might have been noticed that they looked at him, and afterwards at each other, in a manner that could admit of but little misapprehension. "Philip," observed Finigan, addressing the elder Hogan, "Philip, the Macedonian monarch of Macedon, I say, is not that performance a beautiful specimen of the saltatory art? There is manly beauty, O Philip! and modest carriage.
Oh, it's Father Corrigan, God rest his sowl, he's now in glory, and so he was then, also how he did crow and laugh! 'Well, Matthew Finigan, says-he, 'I can't say but I'm happy that your Colleen Bawn here has lit upon a husband that's no discredit to the family and it is herself didn't drive her pigs to a bad market, says he.
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