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I have heard to-day," he added, "that the vessel we are to go in will sail on this day week. My father was here this mornin'; but I hadn't heard it then. Will you, Nogher, tell my mother privately that she mustn't come to see me on the day I appointed with my father? From the state of health she's in, I'm tould she couldn't bear it.
"Connor," she proceeded, "Oona has what you sent her. Nogher an' he is breakin' his heart too gave it to me; an' my daughter, for I will always call her so, has it this minute next her lovin' heart. Here is hers, an' let it lie next yours."
"You're a scholar, sir, an' but maybe I'm sayin' what I oughtn't to say but sure, God knows, it's all very well known long ago." "What is it, M'Cormick?" asked John; "speak out plainly; we will not feel offended." "'Twas only this, sir," continued Nogher, "I'm an unlarned man; but he would write to you may be I mane Connor an' if he did, I'd be glad to hear but I hope I don't offind you, sir.
You wouldn't think of me, may be, although many and many's the time I nursed him on these knees, an' carried him about in these arms, an he cried ay, as God is my judge, he cried bitterly when, as he said, at the time 'Nogher, Nogher, my affectionate friend, I'll never see you more."
Many a time I held him in these arms, an' many a little play I made for him; an' many a time he axed me why his father didn't nurse him as I did; bekase, he used to say, 'I would rather he would nurse me than anybody else, barring my mother; and, afther him, you, Nogher."
"M'Cormick," added the son, "villain as Flanagan is, we shall let him once more loose upon society, sooner than bring the lives of your son, and the two other young men into jeopardy. Such, unhappily, is the state of the country, and we must submit to it." "I thank you, sir," said Nogher.
Nogher, whose moral impressions were by no means so correct as Connor's, asked him, with a face of dry, peculiar mystery, if he had any particular wish unfulfilled; or if there remained behind him any individual against whom he entertained a spirit of enmity.
"I hird that myself afore," observed Nogher, "that she never dhrinks hard whiskey. Well, myself never tasted punch but wanst, an' be goxty its great dhrink. Death alive, Honora More," he continued, in his most insinuating manner, "make us all a sup.
What do you stare and gape for? shut that fathomless cleft in your face, and be off. Now, Nogher," he said, once more addressing the man, "slip down to-morrow with the stamp; or, stay, why should these fellows be there two hours, and the house and the family as they are?
"I am right," said Nogher, "an' it's nothin' else than a sinful world to say that this is bad weather, or that's bad weather bekase the Scriptur says, 'wo be to thee " "But, pray," interrupted John, "what's your business with my father and me?" Nogher rubbed down his chin very gravely and significantly, "Why," said he, "somethin' for your own good, gentlemen."
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