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Updated: July 2, 2025
"If I wasn't able, it would be another thing, but as long as I'm able, I'll let them know that I've the spirit" said Phaddhy, smarting under the implication of niggardliness "when was I at confession before, Father Philemy? Why, then, dear forgive me, not these five years; and I'd surely be the first of the family that would show a mane spirit, or a want of hospitality."
"Silence there below!" said Phaddhy to those at the lower end of the table, who were now talkative enough; "will yez whisht there till Father Con hears Briney a lesson in his Latin. Where are you, Briney? come here, ma bouchal." But Briney had absconded when he saw that the tug of war was about to commence.
"Haven't you got one of them for the church, Phaddhy?" "Yes, your Reverence, there's one of them that I hope will live to have the robes upon him Come over, Briney, and speak to Father Con.
"Not in the least, Phaddhy, considering that it was a first station; and if the dinner goes as well off as the breakfast, they'll be biting their nails: but I should not wish myself that they would have it in their power to sneer or throw any slur over you about it.
"Well, that's a good sign, Phaddhy; but why don't you bring him to me till I examine him?" "Why, never a one of me can get him to come, sir, he's so much afeard of yer Reverence."
Our readers may perceive that Phaddhy "Was not only blest, but glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious;"
Immediately after the conversation already detailed between his Reverence and Phaddhy, the latter sought Katty, that he might communicate to her the unlucky oversight which they had committed, in neglecting to provide fresh meat and wine.
"On Thursday, in Phaddhy Sheemus Phaddhy's of the Esker. Are you there, Phaddhy?" "Wid the help of God, I'm here, sir." "Well, Phaddhy, how is yer son Briney, that's at the Latin? I hope he's coming on well at it." "Why, sir, he's not more nor a year and a half at it yet, and he's got more books amost nor he can carry; he'll break me buying books for him."
To this the Captain, who was intimate with both the clergymen, gave a ready compliance, and Phaddhy returned home in high spirits.
As soon, however, as Phaddhy became a man of substance, one would almost think that there had been a secret relationship between his good fortune and Father Philemy's memory; for, on their first meeting, after Phaddhy's getting the property, the latter shook him most cordially by the hand a proof that, had not his recollection been as much improved as Phaddhy's circumstances, he could by no means have remembered him; but this is a failing in the memory of many, as well as in that of Father Philemy.
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