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Updated: June 19, 2025
"Father Taylor himself couldn't tell yez what's in a letther before he had it opened." "Who's it from, Maggie asthore? Tell us that much," cried Mrs. Brophy with shrill eagerness. Maggie drew the letter from the envelope and slowly unfolded it. An enclosure fell out. Several hands were outstretched to catch it, and Mrs. Kinsella succeeded. "What in the name o' goodness is this?" she asked.
"Ride into the town and see if there is a letter for me," said the squire. "I want a letther, if you plaze!" shouted Andy, rushing into the post-office. "Who do you want it for?" asked the postmaster. "What consarn is that o' yours?" exclaimed Andy.
Come inside, lad, and taste a sup o' me nice, sweet butther-milk; shure the churn's just done, though the butther's too soft entoirely" she shook her head sadly. "A letther!" cried Dermot, drawing out the treasured epistle from between the folds of his shirt, where he had hastily thrust it, that his hands might not soil the creamy paper.
"Sent any! be my sowl, she did so! Afther readin' your letther, an' findin' that she could depind on me, she said that for fear of any remarks bein' made about my waitin', espishally as I live at present in this family, it would be better she thought to answer it by word o' mouth. "Well, but Bartle, what else? short an' sweet, man."
They then dashed home, at the highest speed of which their horses were capable, and throwing themselves out of the saddle, rushed to the hall-door, where they knocked eagerly. "Is my father at home, Letty?" "Yes, sir, he's in the parlor." "In the parlor," exclaimed Alick, looking keenly into her face; "what is he doing in the parlor, eh?" "Why, he's readin' a letther, sir."
I fancy the potatoes grown in your little bit of ground, and boiled in your own black pot, taste sweeter, somehow, than all the fine dinners that Mrs. Larry will be giving you." "Thrue for ye, yer reverence," put in Dan, suddenly appearing in the doorway. "'Pon me word, I wish that ould letther an' all that was in it had stopped where it was, before it came upsettin' us that way.
Did Oh, murther! he's gone! There's never a word to be got out of aither of them this night. But don't you believe that letther, major. Don't you trust a word of it; it's false as hell. It's only a plant to rob ye of your escort first and your life and money later.
Maggie jerked her flaxen locks backwards with a slightly defiant air, and inquired of her parent if she was comin' on out o' that. Mrs. Kinsella in return curtly desired her to be off with herself, an' not be standin' there givin' her impidence, an' Mrs. Brophy maybe killin' herself wonderin' what could be in the letther at all.
"Doesn't the gintleman identify you, you villain," replied one of the turnkeys; "an' isn't the Square's letther in your favor?" "Villain, is id!" exclaimed Phelim. "An' from a hangman's cousin, too, we're to bear this! eh? Take that, anyhow, an' maybe you'll get more when you don't expect it. Whoo! Success, Phelim! There's blood in you still, abouchal!"
"Nothin' more," returned Tom, "beyond that we had formed a wrong opinion of our frind here, last night; for, instead of his bein' what I was half inclined to take him for, he cannot fail to be other than the right stamp, or he never could have that letther in his pocket."
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