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So we settled it between the two of us wan day, an' she passed me her word to bring me Barney's letther if e'er a wan comes the very minute she gets it, an' if he comes himself she says she won't let on where I am, all at wanst, but she'll tell him gradual. Sometimes I do be very unaisy in me mind, Miss Mahony, I assure ye, wondherin' what he'll say when he hears.
"Didn't I see you give that man a letther for fourpence, and a bigger letther than this? Do you think I'm a fool?" "No," said the postmaster; "I'm sure of it." He walked off to serve another customer, and Andy meditated. His master wanted the letter badly, so he would have to pay the exorbitant price.
How much is it for, now, Maggie?" "Ah! good gracious! don't be axin' the child them things. Sure how in the world could she tell, an' it afther bein' written in America? God bless us! let her have a look at the letther anyhow." "'My dear uncle and aunt," began Maggie, slowly spelling out. Mrs. Brophy uttered a shrill scream, and clapped her hands together. "It's from Larry!
"I'm havin' a struggle with me conscience," she said. So was the earl. "Do ye see that buttherfly?" continued Miss O'Kelly, putting her finger against the glass; "it's marked two hundred lire, and that's eight pounds. I priced one in Dublin, just like it, and it was three hundred pounds. They don't know the value of diamonds in Italy. I've ten pounds that I got from Phelim yesterday, in a letther.
The good-natured girl did so: saying at the same time "What is the matter, Peety? do you want me? Won't you come into the kitchen?" "Thank you, avourneen, but I can't; I did want you, but it was only to give you this letther. I suppose it will tell you all.
Read us one more letther, mavourneen, before ye are off, and lave the book here. Mayhap Phelim will spell out a morsel or so when the Sabbath even is coom." "You will not go to confession to-morrow, dear mother?" said Annorah. "Not I," replied Biddy firmly.
'Divil a letther but the priest's they don't open an' read, she said, 'an' tells the news afterwards to the man or woman that owns it. The news gets to them before the letter. An' if I put the fortune in there I'm doubtin' 'twould ever see London. I know an honest man in the Whiterock post office I'd betther be trustin'. And that is how Margret's 'stocking' left the Island.
This she added in a serious and offended tone, which, however, was not lost on the old man. "Well," said he, "considherin' the man he is, an' what you know about him, I think I may as well tell you. It's a letther I'm bringin' to slip into the post-office, unknownst." "Is it from Hycy?" she asked. "From Hycy, and no other."
It seems the Buck sent him up five pounds in a letther, and the Counsellor read the letther, and said it came from a most respectable gentleman, a friend of his, one Barney no, not Barney it wasn't Barney he called him, but but let me see ay, begad Bir Birnard ay, one Birnard English, Esquire, from the Barony of Treena Heela; bekaise, as the Buck doesn't keep himself very closely to any particular place of livin', he dated his letther, I suppose, from the Barony at large."
Watson broke in, hastily, "John is no hand for books and has always had his suspicions o' them since his own mother's great-uncle William Mulcahey got himself transported durin' life or good behaviour for havin' one found on him no bigger'n an almanac, at the time of the riots in Ireland. No, ma'am, John wouldn't rade it at all at all, and he don't know one letther from another, what's more."
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