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"Our family have been writ proof for centuries, and he'd have been a bold man who would have ventured with an original or a true copy within the precincts of Killinahoula." "Your father had a touch of Larry M'Hale in him," said I, "apparently." "Exactly so," replied Dennis; "not but they caught him at last, and a scurvy trick it was and well worthy of him who did it!
Father Maguire was touched by Biddy's desire to do something for the church, and he thought he would have no difficulty in persuading her. He could get this money for the repairs, and he told her that her name would be put on the top of the subscription list. "A subscription from Miss M'Hale L10. A subscription from Miss M'Hale."
"Yes, you pass her house on the way to the station." The German took his leave abruptly, and when he was half-way down the hill he asked some children to direct him. "Is it Biddy M'Hale, that has all the hins, and is going to put up a window in the church, that you're wanting?" The German said that that was the woman he wanted, and the eldest child said:
"What's this you're telling me?" "If your reverence will listen to me " "I'm always listening to you, Biddy M'Hale. Go on with your story." It was a long time before he fully understood what had happened, but at last all the facts seemed clear, and he said: "I'm expecting Pat Connex." Then his thoughts turned to the poor husband weeping in the backyard, and he said:
The young woman told him her name, and he led her to the harmonium and left her talking, addressing most of her instruction to Biddy M'Hale, a long, thin, pale-faced woman, with wistful eyes. "This won't do," said the priest, interrupting the lecturer, "I'm not speaking to you, miss, but to my people.
I have often amused myself by thinking what a mere accident it is that Phillpotts is not Archbishop of Tuam, and M'Hale Bishop of Exeter; and how slight a change of dress, and of a few catchwords, would even now enable them to fill those respective posts with all the propriety and discretion they display in their present positions."
"Very singular style of person your friend Mr. M'Hale," lisped a spooney-looking cornet at the end of the table. "Not in the country he belongs to, I assure you," said Maurice; "but I presume you were never in Ireland." "You are mistaken there," resumed the other; "I was in Ireland, though I confess not for a long time." "If I might be so bold," cried Maurice, "how long?"
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