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Tony had been out to his fields before breakfast, and had there been told by one of the men that Ussher's body had on the previous night been taken through Drumsna to the police station at Carrick, and that it was said that Thady Macdermot, the murderer, had already escaped out of the country. This tale Tony had communicated in a whisper to his wife, and she had afterwards told the girls.
"I think you're wrong there, Miss Louey," said Father John; "I think he not only did think of her but does think of her; and I'll tell you what I know, that if Feemy Macdermot had the great blessing which you have, and that is a kind, good, careful mother to the fore, she'd have been married to him before this."
Macdermot had continually before his eyes the time, which he could not but foresee was not distant, when this hated Flannelly would come down on the property itself, insist on being paid his principal, and probably not only sell, but buy, Ballycloran itself. And whither, then, would the Macdermots betake themselves?
"Well, Macdermot, perhaps I had; so, if your sister 'll excuse me, I won't be a minute. Just step to the door a moment, will you?" and Thady followed him out. "Well, Captain Ussher, what is it?" "I don't know why it is, Macdermot, but for the last two or three days you seem to want to quarrel with me; if it is so, why don't you speak out like a man?" "Is that what you were wanting to say to me?"
Why you seem to have got out of bed the wrong side this morning; or have you and Keegan been striking up some new tiff about the 'rints?" "Mr. Keegan's affairs with me arn't any affairs of yours, Captain Ussher. When I ask you to set them right, then you can talk to me about them." "Hoity toity, Mr. Macdermot; your affairs, and Mr. Keegan's affairs, and my affairs!
Strange as it may seem, Queen Elizabeth retained in her service an Irish harper, Cormac MacDermot, from 1591 to 1603, and on the death of the queen he was given an annual pension of £46 10s. 10d. nearly £500 a year of our present money. Irish dances were extremely popular at the English court from 1600 to 1603 and were introduced into the Masks.
So Katty dropped from the window-sill again, and went to receive the gentleman into the house by following him in at the hall door. By the time, however, that she had entered herself, old Larry Macdermot had been aroused out of his lethargy by a third knocking of the stranger; and on opening his own parlour door, was startled to see Mr.
"Well, that used to be Cashcarrigan parish; and Father Comyns that's the parish priest in Cash don't live not two miles all out from there; and the widow Byrne's is six miles from where I live out yonder, if it's a step, and yet they must go and put Loch Sheen into this parish." Father Cullen's misfortunes still did not come home to Macdermot; he sat looking at the fire.
What little natural power he had ever had, could not be said to have been impaired by age, for Lawrence Macdermot was not in years an old man he was not above fifty; but a total want of energy, joined to a despairing apathy, had rendered him by this time little better than an idiot. Very soon after his coming to his property Flannelly had become a daily and intolerant burthen to him.
And from that time, with one sad exception, it was many months before Larry Macdermot was seen to cross his threshold; he strictly adhered to his resolution; and although during that time many attempts to arrest him were made, he eluded them all. He could not, however, be brought to understand that, for the present, this was useless that no one could arrest him till after Christmas.
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