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So the two retired to their beds, Barry determined, as he declared to the attorney in his drunken friendship, to have it out of Anty, when he caught her; and Daly promising to go to Tuam early in the morning, have the notices prepared and served, and come back in the evening to dine and sleep, and have, if possible, an interview with Mr Moylan.
"What the deuce was it you did say, then?" "Faix, I don't know that I said much, at all." "Didn't you say, Mr Moylan, that Martin Kelly was talking to you about marrying Anty, some six weeks ago?" "Maybe I did; he was spaking about it." "And, if you were in the chair now, before a jury, wouldn't you swear that there was a schame among them to get Anty Lynch married to Martin Kelly?
Colonel Sheldon followed him to the doorway, and called after him: "Take a dozen men with you, and meet Colonel Moylan! A dozen will be sufficient, Major!" Then he turned back into the house, saying to Major Lockwood and Mr.
Oh, the excess of delight the widow experienced in speaking of Barry to one of her gossips, as the "poor misfortunate crature!" Daly, the attorney, was especially invited, and he came. Moylan also was asked, but he stayed away. Doctor Colligan was there, in great feather; had it not been for him, there would probably have been no wedding at all.
"Ah, but was there anything passed about Anty and you getting married? Come now, Martin; I'm in all this throuble along of you, and you shouldn't lave me in the dark. Was you talking to Moylan about Anty and her fortune?"
"It's not worth your while," she replied, "it was a mere thought that came into my head: but you and Mogue Moylan never had a dispute, sir?" "Why, what can put such a notion into your head, my good woman? Certainly not. Mogue and I have been always on the best of terms." She paused again for some minutes, after which, she said, in a voice not audible. "There's something in the wind for all that.
Moylan, Bishop of Cork, gave considerable praise to this speech, and partly at their request it was published in pamphlet form. This brought up directly a discussion among the Catholics, which lasted until 1810, was renewed in 1813, and not finally set at rest till the passage of the bill of 1829, without any such safeguard.
Looks as though it was going to begin right here and now. See there! The dance is on, boys; there they come; they will try it on foot this time." He tested his rifle, resting one knee on the seat; Moylan pushed the barrel of his Winchester out through the ragged hole in the back of the coach, and the little Mexican lay flat, his eyes on the level with the window-casing.
"I'm gething twenty-five pounds per annum from Miss Anty, for her half, and I wouldn't think of collecting the other for less," declared Moylan. And then a long battle followed on this point, which it required all Daly's tact and perseverance to adjust. The old man was pertinacious, and many whispers had to be made into Barry's ear before the matter could be settled.
"Moylan!" he called, hardly above a whisper. "What is the trouble? Have you been hit, man?" There was no answer, no responding sound, and he stood up, reaching kindly over across the seat. Then he knew, and felt a shudder run through him from head to foot. Bent double over the iron back of the middle seat, with hands still gripping his hot rifle, the man hung, limp and lifeless.
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