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"Bless me!" said he bluntly, "is this you? How you are improved!" "Yes," said she; "and I am come to thank you for your pwescwiption: I followed it to the lettaa." "Woe is me! I have forgotten it." "You diwected me to mawwy a nice man." "Never: I hate a nice man." "No, no an Iwishman: and I have done it." "Good gracious! you don't mean that! I must be more cautious in my prescriptions.
"Well, then, the heroic remedy to be used only as a desperate resort, mind you must marry an Irishman." This took the lady's breath away. "Mawwy a nice man?" "A nice man; no. That means a fool. Marry scientifically a precaution eternally neglected. Marry a Hibernian gentleman, a being as mercurial as you are lymphatic." "Mercurial! lymphatic!" "Oh, hard words break no bones, ma'am." "No, sir.
It fwightens me to think of it, and I came away to consider what I had better do, and to talk to you and ask your advice." She looked at Peggy appealingly, and added in a breathless whisper, "I want to do what is right, you know! I want to treat him well! You think I am selfish and worldly, Peggy, but I am not all bad. If I mawwy him, I will do my best.
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