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Updated: June 29, 2025
'Management! no, sir. 'Do you wish to get Miss Nugent turned out of the house? 'Oh, God forbid! how could that be? 'Very easily; if you set about to make her meddle and witness in what my lord does not choose. 'Well then, I'll never mention Miss Nugent's name in it at all, if it was ever so with me. But be PLASED, sir, to write over to my lord, and ask him; I'm sure he'll remember it.
So the colonel said he saw it was all over wid him. 'But, says he, 'I wouldn't like to go wid you alive, and sure it's all the same to you, alive or dead? 'Oh, that won't do, says his frind; 'I can't wait no more, says he. 'I don't want you to wait, my dear frind, says the colonel; 'all I want is, that you'll be plased to kill me before you take me away. 'With pleasure, says Owld Nick.
You could see it a mile off, and you wouldn't get the match of it in Dublin under half-a-crown. If she wouldn't be plased wid that, you've got an odd one to satisfy."
I observed her lookin' partikler admirin' at the handkercher, which was a handsome yellow spot, so I up an' axed her to take a present of it, an' I settled it like an apron in front, to show how iligant 'twould look; an' she was mighty plased, an' curtseyed ever so often, an' Jackey himself gev me the trout out of a big basket he brought in.
The Sherwood family were not exempt from this experience, for Biddy raised a storm because Dinah seemed to be made more of than she was herself. No explanations or smooth words would bridge over the difficulty. She refused to stay in a house where "a big nager could stay in the room wid the missus and hould the baby as long as she plased;" so she left the house, and quite suddenly, too.
Well, the people showed that they were plased by a loud shout, and went away longing for the next Sunday when I was to be presented to them without a divil in me.
For th' ould gintleman tould him Campion was his name; and it appairs Polymathers is some discripshin of thrade, and not rightly called to anybody at all. So I was thinkin' he was maybe annoyed wid our callin' him out of his name all the while; but he said all that ailed it was it was a dale too good for him; and better plased he seemed we would keep on wid it.
"All that you've said," she replied, "is very fine; but in regard o' the bag-pipes, an' Miss Granua Mulcahy's squeezin' the music out o' thim why, if it plased God to bring my son to the staff an' bag a common beggar indeed, in that case, Miss Granua's bagpipes might sarve both o' thim, an' help, maybe, to get them a night's lodgin' or so; but until that time comes, if you respect your niece, you'll burn her bagpipes, dhrone, chanther, an' all.
And, Mr Fitzpatrick, you'll just be plased to keep your two eyes upon your prisoner, and not be staring at me, following me up and down, as you do, with those twinklers of yours." "A cat may look at a king, Mistress Nancy, and no harm done either." "You forget, Mr Fitzpatrick," replied Nancy, "that I am now a modest woman."
"So then they began to look at each other again; and myself seeing at once dirty thoughts was in their heads, and that they tuk me for a poor beggar coming to crave charity, with that says I, 'Oh, not at all, says I, 'by no manes we have plenty of mate ourselves there below, and we'll dhress it, says I, 'if you would be plased to lind us the loan of a gridiron, says I, makin' a low bow.
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