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"The estate is clear and ready to be transferred at this moment. I have been looking in vain for the heirs and assigns of Mlle. Barbara Marie O'Flaharty for a fortnight past, when yesterday at dinner " Just then Raphael suddenly staggered to his feet; he looked like a man who has just received a blow.
"Very well then, monsieur; you are the sole heir of Major O'Flaharty, who died in August 1828 at Calcutta." "An incalcuttable fortune," said the critic. "The Major having bequeathed several amounts to public institutions in his will, the French Government sent in a claim for the remainder to the East India Company," the notary continued.
Did not my mother die of a lung complaint?" "Aha, Raphael! what fun you will have! What will you give me?" asked Aquilina. "Here's to the death of his uncle, Major O'Flaharty! There is a man for you." "He will be a peer of France." "Pooh! what is a peer of France since July?" said the amateur critic. "Are you going to take a box at the Bouffons?"
"One moment," cried Cardot, fairly deafened by a chorus of wretched jokes. "I came here on serious business. I am bringing six millions for one of you." O'Flaharty?" "Yes," said Raphael mechanically enough; "Barbara Marie." "Have you your certificate of birth about you," Cardot went on, "and Mme. de Valentin's as well?" "I believe so."
O'Flaharty, the queen-mother's man-midwife and member for the borough of Corbelly, who entered into a learned dissertation on embrios; but he was interrupted by the young queen's crying for her supper, the previous question for which was carried without a negative; and then the house being resumed, the debate was cut short by the impatience of the majority to go and drink her majesty's health.
The schoolmaster tells me that when he reads out the roll in the morning the children repeat the local name all together in a whisper after each official name, and then the child answers. If he calls, for instance, 'Patrick O'Flaharty, the children murmur, 'Patch Seaghan Dearg' or some such name, and the boy answers. People who come to the island are treated in much the same way.
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