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"By the way," asked the former of these gentlemen, "does this investigation bear in any way upon your interests, M'Mahon?" "Not, sir, so far as I am aware of I come here because Father Magowan wished me to come. I have no interests connected with this country now," he added in a tone of deep melancholy, "there's an end to that for ever."
M'Mahon immediately detailed the conversation which he had overheard behind the bar of the inn, and we need scarcely assure our readers that Hycy did not omit the opportunity of throwing oil upon the fire which blazed so strongly.
This message was very offensive to Hycy, whose great foible, as the reader knows, was to be considered a gentleman, not merely in appearance, but in means and circumstances. He consequently had come to the determination of writing again to M'Mahon upon the same subject, when chance brought them together in the market of Ballymacan.
He and Bryan M'Mahon had of late been upon very good terms; and it so happened that in the course of one of their conversations about Kathleen Cavanagh, Bryan had mentioned to him the fact of Kathleen's having heard that he was pledged to vote with Vanston, and repeated the determination to which she had resolved to come if he should do so.
"Fethertonge," said the landlord, "I see 'Pratt has been found guilty, and the sentence confirmed by the Commander-in-Chief." "You will insist on it," said Bryan, in reply to the agent, "but " "There now, M'Mahon," said the latter, "that will do; good day to you." "I think it is a very harsh sentence, Fethertonge; will you touch the bell?"
"Isn't these blessed times that's coming, plaise your reverence," said M'Mahon, "when we'll be done wid these tithes, and have the millstone taken from our necks altogether?"
"An' why don't you like him?" asked her mother. "Where is there his aquil for either face or figure in the parish, or the barony itself? But I know the cause of it; you could dance with Bryan M'Mahon. But take this with you sorra ring ever Bryan M'Mahon will put on you wid my consent or your father's, while there's any hope of Hycy Burke at any rate."
"Even in that case, provided you support me honestly, I shall hold myself bound to keep my engagement with you, and put M'Mahon out as a beggar." "What! as a beggar?" "Ay, as a beggar; and then no blame could possibly attach to you for succeeding him, and certainly no suspicion." "Hum! as a beggar. But the poor fellow never offended me.
Bridget, where are you? have you left me, gone from me, an' must I live here widout you? must I rise in the mornin, and neither see you nor hear you? or must I live here by myself an' never have your opinion nor advice to ask upon anything as I used to do Bridget M'Mahon, why did you leave me? where are you from me?"
Give Peety a chair, the crature; come forrid, Peety, an' take a sate; an' how are you? an' how is the girsha wid you, an' where is she?" To these questions, thus rapidly put, Peety returned suitable answers; but indeed Mrs. M'Mahon did not wait to listen to them, having gone to another room to produce the whisky she had provided for the occasion.
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