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Updated: May 29, 2025
"You needn't go to your knees at all," replied Nogher, "if you give us the whiskey; or if you do pray, be in earnest, that your heart may be inclined to do it."
"Now," said Honora's mother to the servants of both sexes, "now, childre, that you've aite a trifle, you must taste something in the way of dhrink. It would be too bad on this night above all nights we've seen yet, not to have a glass to the stranger's health at all events. Here, Nogher, thry this, avick you never got a glass wid a warmer heart."
The other servants continued to pour out their praises in terms of delight and astonishment at his accomplishments and beauty, each, in imitation of Nogher, concluding with a toast in nearly the same words. How sweet from all other lips is the praise of those we love!
With a slow but troubled step he walked backward and forward, sometimes uttering indistinct ejaculations and broken sentences, such as no one could understand. At length he approached his own servants, and addressed the messenger whose name was Nogher M'Cormick. "Nogher," said he, "I'm throubled."
"Why, the divil resave the squig of punch, whiskey, or liquor of any sort or size he'll allow to pass the lips of him. Now, Connor, aren't you up to the cunnin' villainy of the thraitor in that maynewvre?" "I am, Nogher; I see his design in it. He is afeard if he got drunk that he wouldn't be able to keep his own secret." "Ah, then, by the holy Nelly, we'll sleep him yet, or he'll look sharp.
Nor did this new trait of his character escape the observation of his own servants, especially of his honest monitor, Nogher M'Cormick. "Well, well," exclaimed this rustic philosopher; "see what God's affliction does. Faith, it has brought Fardorougha to feel a trifle for others, as well as for himself.
"It's a charity it will be," said Nogher, shrewdly availing himself of the commotion he had created, "to stop the vagabone short in the coorse of his villany. He'll surely bring the darlin' young girl off, an' destroy her."
Bodagh; "and what's your day's wages?" "Ten pence." "There's half-a-crown; an' I tell you more, you must come an' take a cot tack undher me, and you'll find the change for the betther, never fear." In point of fact in was so concluded, and Nogher left the Bodagh's house with a heart thankful to Providence that he had ever entered it.
When Biddy returned, he emptied the jug of water with the same trembling eagerness as before; then clasped his hands again, and commenced pacing the room, evidently in a mood of mind about to darken into all the wildness of his former grief. "Fardorougha," said Nogher M'Cormick; "I was undher this roof the night your manly son was born.
Even against persons of his own creed the Irishman thinks that revenge is a duty which he owes to himself; but against those of a different faith it is not only a duty but a virtue and any man who acts out of this feeling, either as a juror, a witness, or an elector for the principle is the same must expect to meet such retribution as was suggested by a heart like Nogher M'Cormick's, which was otherwise affectionate and honest.
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