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"I have reason to suspect," replied Chevydale, "that he is neither more nor less than feathering his own nest at the expense of myself and my tenantry. I cannot understand why he is so anxious to get the M'Mahons off the estate; a family unquestionably of great honesty, truth, and integrity, and who, I believe, have been on the property before it came into our possession at all.
It often happens in domestic life, that in cases where long and undisturbed affection is for the first time deprived of its object by death, there supervenes upon the sorrow of many, a feeling of awful sympathy with that individual whose love for the object has been, the greatest, and whose loss is of course the most irreparable. So was it with the M'Mahons.
Well, you have your eye upon that farm, and you say you have a promise of it." "Something like it; but the d d landlord, Chevydale, is impracticable so my uncle says and doesn't wish to disturb the M'Mahons, although he has been shown that it is his interest to do so but d n the fellow, neither he nor one of his family ever look to their interests d n the fellow, I say."
"Simply, if he and I should ever come to a misunderstanding, that I might let him know he was in my power, by exposing his straightforward methods of business; that's all. However, about the web that this fellow Burke has thrown around these unfortunate devils the M'Mahons, and those other mighty matters that you told of, let me hear exactly what it is all about and how they stand.
When the prisoner left the dock, and the crowd began to disperse, satisfied that justice had been done save in that small circle where the M'Mahons were supreme Crozier rose with other witnesses to leave. As he looked ahead of him the first face he saw was that of Kitty Tynan, and something in it startled him. Where had he seen that look before? Yes, he remembered.
All at wanst I forgot what happened, till I found myself lyin' upon a car wid the M'Mahons of Edinburg, that lived ten or twelve miles beyant the mountains, at the foot of Carnmore. They knew me, and good right they had, for I had been spakin' to their sister Shibby, but she wasn't for me at the time, although I was ready to kick my own shadow about her, God knows.
That, indeed, was a busy and a melancholy day with the M'Mahons; for, in addition to the death of the old grandfather, they were obliged to receive farewell visits to no end from their relations, neighbors, and acquaintances. Indeed it would be difficult to find a family in a state of greater distress and sorrow.
It's a proof that you don't wish to see an honest family oppressed and turned, without reasonable compensation, out of their property." "It's a proof of no such thing, I tell you. I don't care the devil had the M'Mahons; but I am bound to this ninnyhammer of a landlord, who has got me promoted, and who promises, besides, to get an appointment for you.
This renders it necessary that we should return to a period in it somewhat anterior to that at which we have now arrived. CHAPTEE XXVI. Containing a Variety of Matters. Our readers cannot have forgotten the angry dialogue which Kate Hogan and her male relations indulged in upon the misunderstanding that had occurred between the Cavanaghs and M'Mahons, and its imputed cause.
"Ah," said he, on receiving a bumper from the fair hand of Hanna, "let the M'Mahons alone for the old original indeed I ought to say aboriginal hospitality.
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