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Peter O'Figgins, that was cracked but then it was only wid dhrink and larnin' said it; and Katty McTrollop, Lord Bilberry's henwife, was of the same opinion, and from them and others the thing grew and spread until it became right well known that she was nothin' else than a witch, and that the big wart on her neck was nothin' more nor less than the mark the devil had set upon her, to suckle his babies by.
"Masther, have you a prayer-book widin? bekase if you have, I may as well swear here, and you can witness it." "Katty, hand over the Spiritual Exercises a book aquil to the Bible itself for piety an' devotion." "Sure they say, Masther, any book that, the name o' God's in, is good for an oath. Now, wid the help o' goodness, repate the words afore me, an' I'll sware thim."
" Sure she thinks she's a beauty, too, if you plase, said Peggy, tossing her head with an air of disdain; 'but tell us, Katty, how did the muslin sit upon her at all, the upsetting crathur? "'Why, for all the world like a shift on a Maypowl, or a stocking on a body's nose: only nothing killed us outright but the pocket-handkerchy!
"But, Father Con, wid submission," said Katty, "where's Father Philemy from us? sure, we expected him along wid you, and he wouldn't go to disappoint us?" "Oh, you needn't fear that, Katty," replied Father Con; "he'll be here presently before breakfast, I'll engage for him at any rate; but he had a touch of the headache this morning, and wasn't able to rise so early as I was."
Biddy and Katty were first examined, and it was from the evidence of the former that Father John first heard that Feemy had agreed to elope with Ussher; and it appeared from what the girl said that her mistress was to have left the house some time previous to the time at which the other girl proved that she had been brought back by her brother.
Averil and Ella quickly improved, grew stronger in the intervals, and suffered less during the attacks; but Minna, who in their own house had been less ill, had waited on both, and supplied the endless deficiencies of the kindly and faithful, but two-fisted Katty; Minna, whose wise and simple little head had never failed in sensible counsels, or tender comfort; Minna, whom the rudest and most self-important far-wester never disobliged, Minna, the peace-maker, the comfort and blessing was laid low by fever, and fever that, as the experienced eyes of Cousin Deborah at once perceived, 'meant mischief. Then it was that the real kindliness of heart of the rough people of the West showed itself.
"To be sure I will," said Katty, "espishially in everything that's right, any how come here now, and while his reverence is getting his staff and mittens in the room above, I'll help you on with the shoes and stockings.
"Accompanied by the priest, he went home, to the unutterable horror of the newly-married pair, which was little lessened when they found that their unwelcome visitor was not from another world. "'I am dead to you, Katty, said he, with a gentle sadness, so different from the burst of passion which the priest had feared, that he knew that his heart was broken.
"'No, in troth, Katty, I was disappointed in getting my shoes from Paddy Mellon, though I left him the measure for my foot three weeks agone, and gave him a thousand warnings to make them duck-nebs; but, instead of that, said she, holding out a very purty foot, 'he has made them as sharp in the toe as a pick-axe, and a full mile too short for me. But why do ye ax was I out, Katty?
Mehan's, and when you come back you can say you'd been down to look for something that was left the day of Mary's wedding; but mind, Biddy, don't say a word about it at Mrs. Mehan's, and above all, don't mention it to Katty." "Not a word, Miss; niver fear: but what'll I be doing when you're gone? But I suppose it's all for the best; may sorrow seize him thin av he don't make you the good husband."
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