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Faix, it's a wondher he didn't murther her outright!" "And where are ye going now?" "Jist down to Dunmore to the Kellys then, avich. Asy now; I'll be telling you all bye and bye. She must be out of this intirely." "Is't Miss Anty? Where'd she be going thin out of this?" "Divil a matther where! He'd murther her, the ruffian 'av he cotched her another night in his dhrunkenness.
My new man, Joe Kelly, also displayed much reluctance at the thoughts of leaving his native country; and this sentiment inclined Ellinor to think more favourably of him, though she could not quite forgive him for being a Kelly of Ballymuddy. "Troth," said she to him one day, in my presence, "none of them Kellys of Ballymuddy but what are a bad clan!
"MY DEAR SIR, I am sorry to say that absence from town and other circumstances have prevented me from earlier inquiring into the results of the sale of The Kellys and the O'Kellys, with which the greatest efforts have been used, but in vain.
For one week these feelings quite destroyed poor Colligan's peace of mind; during the second, he determined to make a clean breast of it; and, on the first day of the third week, after turning in his mind twenty different people Martin Kelly young Daly the widow the parish priest the parish parson the nearest stipendiary magistrate and a brother doctor in Tuam, he at last determined on going to Lord Ballindine, as being both a magistrate and a friend of the Kellys.
A few days later a begrimed envelope addressed in pencil was brought to the door by the postman. Michael with sinking heart opened it. It read: "MiKY ef yo be reely hym cum to KelLys karner at 10 tumoroW nite. Ef you are mIK youz thee old whissel an doante bring no une wit yer Ef yO du I wunt be thar.
"But what the d l can I " "Jist hear me out, Mr Moylan; you see, if they once knew the Kellys I mane that you wouldn't lend a hand to this piece of iniquity " "Which piece of iniquity, Mr Daly? for I'm entirely bothered." "Ah, now, Mr Moylan, none of your fun: this piece of iniquity of theirs, I say; for I can call it no less.
The fact that I had written and published it, and that I was writing another, did not in the least interfere with my life, or with my determination to make the best I could of the Post Office. In Ireland, I think that no one knew that I had written a novel. But I went on writing. The Macdermots was published in 1847, and The Kellys and the O'Kellys followed in 1848.
"The Kellys is always too good for the likes of them," put in a fourth, presuming that the intended marriage was the subject immediately in discourse. "Faix, Mr Martin's too good for the best of 'em," declared another.
Alick, who was sitting bodkin between the ladies, simply remarked, "Let her head go!" as she went thundering into the crowd, hurling Doyles and Donohoes into the air, trampling Kellys under foot and so out the other side, and away at a 2.30 gait for at least half a mile before the terrified girls could pull her up, and come back to see what damage had been done. That ended the fight.
E.S. Ritchie. 8vo. pp. 84. 25 cts. The Kellys and the O'Kellys. A Novel. By Anthony Trollope, Author of "Dr. Thorne," etc. From the Last London Edition. New York. Rudd & Carleton. 12mo. pp. 432. $1.25.
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