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Updated: June 23, 2025
Mahony's seat was some way off John's; he had to lean forward, did he wish to see his brother-in-law. Towards eleven o'clock, just as he was wondering if he could slip out unobserved, a hand was laid on his arm. John stood behind him, white to the lips. "Can I have a word with you upstairs?"
"No, may all the saints bless 'er and give 'er health! An' as I say, doctor...." In speaking he had drawn a roll of bank-notes from his pocket, and now he tried to stuff them between Mahony's fingers. "What's this? My good man, keep your money till it's asked for!" and Mahony unclasped his hands, so that the notes fluttered to the ground. "Then there let 'em lay!"
To sit there watching his slow manipulation of the cards, his patent intentness on the game; to listen any longer to the accursed din of the gnats and flies passed Mahony's powers of endurance. Abruptly shoving back his chair, he went out into the yard.
"The hall porter took Mahony's chaff, faith, in all sober sayriousness. `It's moighty sorry I am, says he; `Master Lancett's gone to the castle, though proud I am for ould Trinity's sake, sayin' as how the Lord Lieutenant has for to send to us, sure, bekase them murtheren' 'sassa docthers that he brought from over the say with him from Inkland ain't a patch on our chaps!
Melville, said he, picking up the chair, and placing it on the carpet, 'besides, I have taken the ordinary precautions. The house is surrounded Ned Mahony's lambs the usual statement is in the safe of a friend. We must really come to the point. Time is flying, and he looked at his watch. 'I can give you twenty minutes.
Mahony's goal was one of these: a low, stone villa surrounded by verandahs, in the midst of tasteful grounds. The drive up to the door led through a shrubbery, artfully contrived of the native ti-tree; behind the house stretched kitchen and fruit-gardens. Many rare plants grew in the beds. There was a hedge of geraniums close on fifteen feet high.
Now, when these shares unexpectedly swung up to a high level only to drop the week after to their standing figure Ocock failed to sell out in the nick of time. Called to account, he replied that it was customary in these matters for his clients to advise him; thus deepening Mahony's sense of obligation.
But the door having clicked behind her, Mahony's air of forced assurance died away. For an instant he hesitated beside the table, on which a rampart of books lay open, then vigorously clapped each volume to and moved to the window, chewing at the ends of his beard. A timely interruption!
While, without, the hot blast, dark with dust, flung itself against the corners of the house, and howled like a soul in pain. Counsel for the defence made an excellent impression. "Naturally! I can afford to pay a better-class man," was Mahony's caustic note. He had fallen to scribbling on a sheet of paper, and was resigned to sitting through an adept presentment of Ocock's shifts and dodges.
A lively clatter of tongues filled the room, the space of which was taxed to its utmost: there were present, besides the friends and intimates of the house, several of Mahony's colleagues, a couple of Bank Managers, the Police Magistrate, the Postmaster, the Town Clerk, all with their ladies.
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