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Hopkins had once been repulsed with haughtiness by the representative of the O'Dougherty family, when he offered to purchase some of the family estate; but his proposal was now better timed, and was made with all the address of which he was master. He began by begging Simon to give him his opinion of the horse on which he was mounted, as he knew Mr.
Simon married her, to use his own phrase, out of hand: hut the marriage was only the beginning of new troubles. The bride had hordes and clans of relations, who came pouring in from all quarters to pay their respects to Mrs. O'Dougherty.
The first thing Mr. Hopkins resolved upon was to purchase from Simon O'Dougherty the field adjoining to that in which the mill stood. The brook flowed through this field, and Mr. Hopkins saw, with malicious satisfaction, that he could at a small expense turn the course of the stream, and cut off the water from the mill.
Sir Hyacinth tried all his powers of persuasion in vain, and he left the cottage mortified and melancholy. He met Simon O'Dougherty when he had driven a few miles from the door; and, in a tone of much pique and displeasure, reproached him for having deceived him into a belief that the Grays were his friends.
O'Dougherty if he heard the fire alarm that night; and, if so, whether the prisoner was in sight at the time?" "Shure, an' I heerd it," answered the O'Dougherty. "It was fur the Seventh District. An' wasn't this gin'leman here at the ind o' me poipe, jist when it begun to bang away?" Overtop cast one triumphant glance at the jury, which was fully reciprocated by the foreman and four others.
There's nothing simpler than that; nothing more easily said." "If it were but true," said Simon. "True or not, it may be said, you know." "Not by Simon O'Dougherty, Mr. Hopkins.", "Look you, Mr. O'Dougherty, I have a great regard for you," continued Hopkins, holding him fast, and producing a pocket-book full of bank notes. I must, thought he, come up to this scoundrel's price, for he has me now.
O'Dougherty was a particularly good judge of a hunter; and he would not buy it, from Counsellor Quin's groom, without having a skilful friend's advice.
And didn't his nose touch me own?" "Did he look pale and excited?" asked the coroner. "No, yer Honor; his face was red as a brick, an', though it was a cowld night, he looked to be warm wid fasht walkin'." "Did he say anythin'?" "No; he only axed for a light." "Was his 'pearance 'spicious?" "No, yer Honor, more'n yer own. No offince to yez." "That'll do, Mr. O'Dougherty. Next witness."
"I niver spilt it. Spill it to suit yezself, yer Honor." "Spell it in the usual way, with a 'k'" said the coroner, turning to the reporters. "Your residence, Mr. O'Dougherty?" "Me what?" "Your residence. Where do you live?" "Oh! it's fare I live yer want to know. In Mulberry street, near Baxter." "You belong to the perlice, I believe?" asked the coroner.
Amongst these busy-bodies was Simon O'Dougherty: indolent in all his own concerns, he was remarkably active in managing the affairs of others. His home being now insufferable to him, he was glad to stroll about the country; and to him Sir Hyacinth O'Brien left all the dirty work of the canvass.
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