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"Well, Kate," said her father, "I'm glad I seen you; but I think it was your duty to call upon me long before this." "I would, but that I was afraid you wouldn't see me; and, besides, Ginty told me it was better not for some time. She kept me back, or I would have come months ago." "Ay, ay; she has some devil's scheme in view that'll end in either nothing or something.
I heard tell that Tom Ginty, the pig-jobber, has comed home to Dromod from where he was away tiv' Athlone; and they do be telling me, he brought a thrifle of money with him; and yer honer knows Mary had half given a promise to Ginty afore he went: and so, yer riverence, lest there be any scrimmage betwixt Ginty and I, ye see it's as well to get the marriage done off hand."
There now," he added, "that is all I know about it; and I suppose it's not more than you knew yourself before." In order to close the dialogue he stood up, and at once led the way down to the back parlor, where the stranger, on following him, found Ginty Cooper and the old woman in close conversation, which instantly ceased when they made their appearance.
"We think that foreign travel has widened your principles out a bit That's what we think, isn't it, Ginty?" "My principles are what they always were," said McMunn, "but I've some small share of commonsense. I know there's a foreigner coming on board the night, a baron and a dissipated man " "Come, now," said Lord Dunseverick, "you can't be sure that Von Edelstein is dissipated.
"And when I promised poor Edward on his death-bed," proceeded the old man, "I made him give me a sartin time; an' I did this in ordher to allow Ginty an opportunity of tryin' her luck. If she does not manage her point within that time, I'll fulfil my promise to the dyin' man." "But, why," she asked, "did he make you promise to do it when he could ay, but I forgot.
She's been worryin' herself thin for the last five years, doin' matrimonial equations for the clergy. She's a firm believer in the virtue of patience, and if the Lord only keeps on sendin' us unmarried rectors, Ginty is goin' to have her day. It's just naturally bound to come.
"And you must assist us, father," said Ginty, rising up, and pacing to and fro the room in a state of great agitation. "You, the first cause, the original author of my shame; you, to whose iniquitous avarice and vulgar ambition I fell a sacrifice, as much as I did to the profligacy and villany of Thomas Gourlay. But I care not I have my ambition; it is a mother's, and more natural on that account.
At any rate she's the first of the family that ever brought shame an' disgrace upon the name. Not but she felt her misfortune keen enough at the time, since it turned her brain almost ever since. And him, the villain but no matter he, must be punished." "But," replied the wife, "wont Ginty be punishin' him?"
"I'm glad to hear it," said Lord Dunseverick. "Let's have a couple of bottles." Ginty took his pipe from his mouth and grinned pleasantly. He wanted beer. "You'll be thinking maybe," said McMunn, "that I'm going back on my temperance principles?" "We don't think anything of the sort," said Lord Dunseverick.
"He will be neither the one nor the other then," said the prophetess, "but something better both for himself and his friends." "Is this by way of the oracular, Ginty?" "You may take it so if you like," replied the female.
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