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I knew very well what the skip was at." "Scamp, ma'am, and you will oblige me." "It wasn't a cut did it, Mrs. Mulroony; it fell off naturally, and by instalments or rather it was a cut, and that was what made you feel it; that youthful old gentleman, Time, gave it a touch with a certain scythe he carries. No such croppy as old Time, Mrs. Mulroony."
"So he and they fought, and smashed another lot of glass, and then I set out and charged him on the watch. Oh, murdher sheery to think the way my beautiful beef and greens went!" Here Mr. Ambrose, approaching Mrs. Mulroony, whispered "My dear Mrs. Mulroony, remember one word futurity; heir apparent heir direct; so be moderate, and a short time will place you in easy circumstances.
Owing to this distribution of official justice a partial calm was restored, and the charge of Mrs. Mulroony was opened in form. "Well, Mrs. Mulroony, what charge is this you have against Misther Gray?" "Because," replied Ambrose, "I wasn't in possession of assets to pay her own. Had I met her most iniquitous charge at home, honest Ned, I should have escaped the minor one here.
Mulroony proceed." "Well; he tould me to get a dinner for five; but first asked to see what he called 'the bill of hair." "In your hands it is anything but a bill of rights, Mrs. Mulroony." "I tould him not to trouble himself; that my dinner was as good as another's, which I thought might satisfy him; but instead o' that, he had the assurance to ask me if I could give them hair soup.
The event that's coming will be a stunner." "What's that he's sayin' to you, my dear Mrs. Mulroony?" asked Ned; "don't listen to him, he'll only soohdher and palaver you. I'll take your charge, and lock him up." "Darby," said Mr. Gray, now approaching that worthy, "a single word with you we understand one another I intended to bribe old Ned, the villain; but you shall have it."
Mulroony; and it is a sad thing to be unprotected, ma'am; it's a pity, too, to see sich a woman as you are without somebody to take care of her, and especially one that id undherstand swindlin'. But what happened next, ma'am?"
"Why, he then attempted to escape; but as I happened to have a stout ladle in my hand, I thought a good basting wouldn't do him any harm, and while I was layin' on him two sailors came in, and they took him out of my hands." "Out of the frying-pan into the fire, you ought to say, Mrs. Mulroony."
"Faith, plain enough," she replied; "he came in about half past five o'clock, with three or four skips from college " "Scamps, Mrs. Mulroony. Be just, be correct, ma'am. We were all gentlemen scamps, Ned, from college. Everybody knows that a college scamp is a respectable character, especially if he be a divinity student, a class whom we are proud to place at our head. You are now corrected, Mrs.
"Very good, it's a bargain," replied the virtuous Darby; "fork out." "Here, then, is ten shillings, and bring me out of it." Darby privately pocketed the money, and moving toward Ned, whispered to him "Don't take the charge for a few minutes. I'll fleece them both. Amby has given me half-a-crown; another from her, and then, half and half between us. Mrs. Mulroony, a word with you.
Roony; a gentleman scamp, known to every one as a most respectable character on town." "When I caught him going off without payment, he fairly laughed in my face, and offered to toss me." "Oh, the villain!" said Ned; "I only wish I had been there, Mrs. Mulroony, and you wouldn't have wanted what I am sorry to see you do want a protector.
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