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The father laughed till he fell off his stool, and the mother till the tears ran down her cheeks. "Death alive; ould man! but you're very merry," said Phelim. "If you wor my age, an' in such an' amplush, you'd laugh on the wrong side o' your mouth. Maybe you'll tarn your tune when you hear that she has a hundhre and twenty guineas." "An' you'll be rich, too," said the father.
"A hundhre' a hundhre' a hundhre'," he shouted; "a hundhre', when I'm gone when I'm gone!" One solemn and determined No, that precluded all hopes of any such arrangement, was the only reply. The old man leaped up again, and looked impatiently and wildly and fiercely about him. "What are you?" he shouted; "what are you? You're a divil a born divil. Will nothing but my death satisfy you?
Betther! faix, four hundhre from him is worth three times as much from another." "Glory to you, Ellish! bright an' cute for ever! Why, I'd back you for a woman' that could buy an' sell Europe, aginst the world. Now, isn't it odd that I never think of these long-headed skames?" "Ay do you, often enough, Pether; but you keep them to yourself, abouchal."
"There's some thruth in what you say, aroon, sure enough," observed Ellish; "an' if his Reverence puts another hundhre to it, why, in the name of goodness, let them go together. If you don't choose that, Docthor, never breathe the subject to me agin. Dan's not an ould man yit, an' has time enough to get wives in plenty."
"I tell you," observed O'Neil, "there's a bad pill* somewhere about us." * This means a treacherous person who cannot depended upon. "Ay, is there, Owen," replied Traynor; "and what is more, I don't think he's a hundhre miles from the place where we're sittin' in." "Faith, maybe so Jack," returned the other. "I'd never give into that," said Murphy.
"Sure enough, I wondhered at it," replied Peter, "but, for my own part, I'd give my son to her widout a penny o' fortune, in ordher to be connected wid the priest; an' besides, she's a fine, handsome, good girl ay, an' his fill of a wife, if she had but the shift to her back." "Four hundhre wid a priest's niece, Pether, is before double the money wid any other.
"Don't be unaisy, Darby," he said. "We can't give you a lease for about a week or fortnight; but the agent is now here, an' we must first take out new leases ourselves. As soon as we do you shall have yours." "If you only knew, your honor, the scrapin' I had in these hard times, to get together that hundhre "
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