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But come with me to bank this mornin' an' I'll prove it all to ye." Something in his voice made Franklin wheel around and look at him. "Oh, do be serious, Battersleigh," said he. "It's sayrious I am, Ned, I till ye. Luk at me, boy. Do ye not see the years droppin' from me? Succiss! Revinge! Cash! Earth holds no more for Batty. I've thim all, an' I'm contint.
Patrick, until good ould Father Mahan tould me, whin I confessed, that he was afraid I would swear my own sowl away, and keep Patrick in Purgatory; and the Father tould me that I should lave off cursin' Patterson, for the Americans thimselves would attend to that, and take to fighting the Rebels for revinge; and he said by way of incouragement that at the same time I'd be sarving God and my adopted country.
"He has, an' 'tis that, and bekase he's a good hand to be undher for my revinge on Blennerhasset, that made me join him." "I dunna what could make him refuse to let Alick Nulty join him?" "Is it my cousin from Annaloghan? an' did he?" "Divil a lie in it; it's as thrue as you're standin' there; but do you know what is suspected?" "No." "Why, that he has an eye on Bodagh Buie's daughter.
You have got your hansel, an' full an' plenty of it; hopin' at the same time that you'll have no rason in life to cut our best clothes from revinge. She then resumed her knitting, occasionally stopping, as she changed her needles, to listen, with her ear set, as if she wished to augur from the nature of their chirping, whether they came for good or for evil.
If he can come this far, let him come on to Sydney and play for double the stakes." Like a shot the priest turned on him. "Bedad, an' if that's yer talk, Oi'll play ye fer double stakes from here to the other side of glory. Do yez think men are mice because they eat cheese? It isn't one of the Ryans would be fearing to give any man his revinge!"
Oi'll go on to the next station so as ye can have revinge." Then he sat down again, and play went on in earnest. The man of religion seemed to have the Devil's own luck. When he was dealt a good hand he invariably backed it well, and if he had a bad one he would not risk anything.
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