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"It's too much," observed the other; "still I'm glad it's no more; an' since the villains did take it, it's well they tuck it from a man that can afford to lose it." "By all accounts," said Arthur, or, as he was called, Art, "Hycy, the sportheen, has pulled him down a bit. He's not so rich now, they say, as he was three or four years ago."
No, no; he's wild, and not scrupulous in many things, but I always thought him generous, an' indeed rather careless about money." "You mane the sportheen?" said his brother Art.
On riding up to the school, Hycy, as he approached the door, heard his own name repeated by at least two dozen voices. "Here's a gintleman, masther" "It's Misther Hycy Burke, sir " "It is, bedad, sir, Hycy the sportheen " "Him that rides the race, masther" "Ay, an' he has on top-boots and buckskins, an's as gran' as a gintleman " "Silence!" said Finigan, "silence!
Whilst O'Finigan was thus dealing out the king's English with such complacent volubility a volubility that was deeply indebted to the liquor he had taken the following dialogue took place in a cautious under-tone between Batt Hogan and Teddy. "So Hycy the sportheen is to be up here to-night?" "Shiss." "B t your shiss! can't you spake like a Christian?"
"Well, but I beg I will," she replied; "it'll show them, at any rate, what kind of a reformation is likely to come over him. I have it here in my pocket ay, this is it. Now, father," she proceeded, looking at the letter, "here is a letter, sent to my sister 'To Miss Cavanagh, that's what's on the back of it and what do you think Hycy, the sportheen, asks her to do for him?"
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