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And having accomplished an epigram at his own expense, he felt as if he had to some degree atoned for his fault, just as a flagellant looks upon his self-scourging as expiatory. How to act in the position in which he had been placed by Irons's insulting proposal was a question which he found more difficult to answer than according to his theories, it should have been.
Edith was happily spared the harassing complications of financial difficulty which it had seemed must inevitably result from the condition in which her husband's affairs were left. On Mr. Irons's return from New York, he had been astounded and enraged to find that he had been outwitted by the combined cleverness of Mrs.
It was a stout poplar, just a yard away from Irons's shoulder; and as Dangerfield pronounced the word 'tree, his hand rose, and the sharp report of a pocket-pistol half-deafened Irons's ear.
This awful ditty died away in the prolonged drone which still finds favour in the ears of our Irish rustic musicians, and the company now began to talk of congenial themes, murders, ghosts, and retributions, and the horrid tune went dismally booming on in Mr. Irons's ear.
Irons's note, calling his attention particularly to the ill-chosen word "all" which seemed to her to afford the means of unloading indefinitely at the expense of the absent financier. Her enthusiasm received a cruel shock when Snaffle retorted with a burst of ill-bred laughter, "Oh Lord! You must think Irons is a dog-goned fool!" "But," the widow persisted, "it says 'all' the stock, doesn't it?"
Speak out, Sirrah! and his eyes shone white in the moonlight, and his hand was advanced towards Irons's throat, and he looked half beside himself, and trembling all over. 'Put down your hand or you hear no more from me, said Irons, also a little transformed. Mervyn silently lowered his hand clenched by his side, and, with compressed lips, nodded an impatient sign to him.
Thereafter, no fumes of coffee were necessary to keep the widow awake for the remainder of the night; and on Thursday morning before she presented herself at Irons's office she had an interesting interview with no less a personage than Mr. Erastus Snaffle himself. Mrs.
As he passed by the row of houses looking across the road towards the river, from Mr. Irons's hall-door step a well-known voice accosted him 'A thweet night, doctor the moon tho thilver bright the air tho thoft! It was little Puddock, whose hand and face were raised toward the sweet regent of the sky. 'Mighty fine night, said Sturk, and he paused for a second.
And at the name he mentioned, Lowe and Toole, in silence and steadfastly, exchanged a pale, grim glance that was awful to see. It seemed that Mr. Dangerfield had taken Zekiel Irons's measure pretty exactly. The clerk had quite made up his mind to take the bold step urged upon him by that gentleman. He was a slow man. When one idea had fairly got into his head there was no room there for another.
Irons and Dangerfield, and the church-yard there was a flash of association in the group and the background which accorded with an old suspicion. Dangerfield, indeed, was innocently reading a leaf in his red and gilt leather pocket-book, as I have said. But Irons's eyes met the glance of Mervyn, and contracted oddly, and altogether there gleamed out something indefinable in his look.
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