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Soho's departure left him opportunity to speak, he stood silent, unable to recollect any thing but Grace Nugent. When Miss Nugent left the room, after some minutes' silence, and some effort, Lord Colambre said to his mother, "Pray, madam, do you know any thing of Sir Terence O'Fay?" "I!" said Lady Clonbrony, drawing up her head proudly; "I know he is a person I cannot endure.
"Sir Terence O'Fay," continued Lord Colambre, in a moderated tone, "you are wrong to mention that young lady's name in such a manner." "Why then I said only Miss B , and there are a whole hive of bees. But I'll engage she'd thank me for what I suggested, and think herself the queen bee if my expedient was adopted by you."
'Why, then, continued Sir Terence, following up Miss Nugent to the table, where she was sealing letters, 'I must tell you how I sarved that same man on another occasion, and got the victory too. No general officer could talk of his victories, or fight his battles o'er again, with more complacency than Sir Terence O'Fay recounted his CIVIL exploits. 'Now I'll tell Miss Nugent.
Sir Terence O'Fay, you know, was only the poor nobleman's friend, and you'll never want to call upon him again, thanks to your jewel, your Pitt's-diamond of a son there. So we part here, and depend upon it you're better without me that's all my comfort, or my heart would break. The carriage is waiting this long time, and this young lover's aching to be off.
Sir Terence O'Fay now supplied Mr. Edwards with accurate information as to the demands that were made upon Lord Clonbrony, and of the respective characters of the creditors. Mr.
"Never fear!" said Sir Terence: "hav'n't I been at my wits' ends for myself or my friends ever since I come to man's estate to years of discretion, I should say, for the deuce a foot of estate have I! But use has sharpened my wits pretty well for your service; so never be in dread, my good lord; for look ye!" cried the reckless knight, sticking his arms akimbo, "look ye here! in Sir Terence O'Fay stands a host that desires no better than to encounter, single-witted, all the duns in the united kingdoms, Mordicai the Jew inclusive."
Of these associates, the first in talents, and in jovial profligacy, was Sir Terence O'Fay a man of low extraction, who had been knighted by an Irish lord-lieutenant in some convivial frolic.
'Though my act, in law, may not be valid, till I am of age, my promise, as a man of honour, is binding now; and, I trust, would be as satisfactory to my father as any legal deed whatever. 'Undoubtedly, my dear boy; but 'But what? said Lord Colambre, following his father's eye, which turned to Sir Terence O'Fay, as if asking his permission to explain.
That's the way we are obliged to state the thing to your mother, my dear boy, because I might talk her deaf before she would understand or listen to anything else. But, for my own share, I don't care a rush if London was sunk in the salt sea. Little Dublin for my money, as Sir Terence O'Fay says. 'Who is Sir Terence O'Fay, may I ask, sir? 'Why, don't you know Terry?
'Never fear! said Sir Terence: 'Haven't I been at my wits' ends for myself or my friends ever since I come to man's estate to years of discretion, I should say, for the deuce a foot of estate have I! But use has sharpened my wits pretty well for your service; so never be in dread, my good lord for look ye! cried the reckless knight, sticking his arms akimbo 'look ye here! in Sir Terence O'Fay stands a host that desires no better than to encounter, single witted, all the duns in the united kingdoms, Mordicai the Jew inclusive.
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