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O'Faley pointed out to him all the accommodations of a French apartment: she had not at this moment the slightest malice or bad intention in any thing she was saying she simply spoke in all the innocence of a Frenchwoman if that term be intelligible.
"Then we shall get his answer to the father's letter in eight days, I count," said Mademoiselle; "and I have great hopes we shall never be troubled with him: we shall know if he will come or not, in eight days." "About that time," said O'Shane: "but, sister O'Faley, do not nurse my child or yourself up with deceitful hopes.
"At any rate, there's no great occasion to be angry with me, Dora." "And who is angry, pray, Mr. Ormond? What put it in your head that I was doing you the honour to be angry with you?" "The cream! the cream!" cried Miss O'Faley.
O'Faley, coming to reside with me here, and has conquered her antipathy to solitude, and the Black Islands, and all from natural love and affection for my daughter Dora; for which I have a respect for her, notwithstanding all her eternal jabbering about politesse, and all her manifold absurdities, and infinite female vanities, of which she has a double proportion, being half French.
Connal of Glynn; but the aunt seemed so averse to the match, and expressed this so openly, that some people began to think it would be broken off; others, who knew Cornelius O'Shane's steadiness to his word of honour, were convinced that Miss O'Faley would never shake King Corny, and that Dora would assuredly be Mrs. Connal.
O'Faley, "you are quite right to spare yourself the trouble of guessing; for I give it you in two, I give it you in four, I give it you in eight, and you would never guess right.
Miss O'Faley had lived long enough in Ireland to know that the usual method, in all disputes, is to split the difference: therefore she decided that her niece should marry some Irishman who would take her to Paris, and reside with her there, at least a great part of his time the latter part of the bargain to be kept a secret from the father till the marriage should be accomplished.
Mademoiselle was going to interrupt, but Cornelius O'Shane silenced her. "Mademoiselle sister O'Faley, I will do the best I can to repair that folly and to leave you at liberty, Dora, to follow the choice of your heart." He paused, and again studied her countenance, which was agitated. "Her choice is your choice her father's choice is always the choice of the good daughter," said Mademoiselle.
He produced the bit of a note, which, King Corny's hands being at that time too full of the eggs and the kettle to receive graciously, was laid down on the corner of the table, from which it fell, and Miss O'Faley picking it up, and holding it by one corner, exclaimed, "Is this what you call dry as a bone, in this country? And mighty clean, too faugh!
Miss O'Faley, without taking notice of any thing Ormond said of the money, which had been lodged in the bank to pay for his commission, wrote as executrix to beg of him to do various business for her all which he did; and fresh letters came with new requests, inventories to be taken, things to be sent to Dublin, money to be received and paid, stewards' and agents' accounts to be settled, business of all kinds, in short, came pouring in upon him, a young man unused to it, and with a mind peculiarly averse from it at this moment.
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