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Twomey wont to speak of her husband "I says to him, that your Honour was satisfied to leave Master Larry back in Cluhir till he'd be well agin. They were all sayin' the child wouldn't be said by ye to come back! Didn't I have to put the heighth o' the house o' curses to it before he'd believe me!" "Intolerable nonsense!" said Frederica, hotly.
In the creed of Mary Twomey, and her fellows, it was only in conformity with natural law in the spiritual world that ginthry should go to church, and the like of herself to chapel.
Twomey fervently, expressing in this concise form her gratitude to her Creator for what she considered to be Larry's release from a very vile durance "He's long enough in it already!" "The Doctor wouldn't let me move him any sooner," replied Miss Coppinger, apologetically. "The divil doubt him, what a fool he'd be!" said Mrs. Twomey with a bitter laugh.
That little fella is in tune with all the world!" she declared; "but those people do be always gibbing and gabbing! Give them a smell, and they're that suspeecious they'll do the rest! Sure I said to that owld man below, Mikey Twomey" thus dispassionately was Mrs.
"Go away from me, Miss Christian!" shouted Mrs. "Go-to-God-he-did-not!" "He did, indeed, Mrs. Twomey!" replied Christian, rooting at her habit pocket, and extracting her purse. "He said that he'd won the scholarship, and he knew you were praying hard for him or he wouldn't have got it, and he said I was to give you this, with his love."
The mist was close round the cart as the walls of a room; the only sound was the thin wind singing in the telegraph wires. "Mrs. Twomey," murmured John Brien, "the Clergy is agin him!" "Oh, great and merciful Lord God!" said Mrs. Twomey. She said it without either irreverence or reverence. She merely wished to express to John Brien her comprehension of the importance of his statement.
But I wisht it was home in his own house he was to be," she replied, raising her skirt, and stuffing the purse into a large pocket that hung round her waist over a red flannel petticoat; "han't he lessons enought learnt?" "Oh, but he loves going to Oxford, Mrs. Twomey," said Christian; "he's looking forward to it awfully; and I'm going to France to do lessons, too!
Twomey, and her like, to argue a point, or to attempt an appeal to reason. A flat and dictatorial contradiction may have some temporary effect, and Major Talbot-Lowry adopted this method, for lack of better, in defence of his nominee. Mrs. Twomey, however, continued to weep. "But Mary," urged Frederica, "there isn't a doctor in the world who doesn't lose a patient sometimes.
Also, parenthetically, that Danny Aherne was without shoe or stocking to his foot when he was going to school in Pribawn with her own poor little boy. "And look at him now!" continued Mrs. Twomey, on a high reciting note, and still presto, "with his car and his horse, and his coat with an owld cat skin for a collar on it, and his Tommy-shirts without tails!"
Sure I thought he'd be kept back in England till the Christmas?" "He's finished with school now," said Christian. "He's going abroad for a bit after Christmas, and then he's going to Oxford!" The glory in Christian's voice conveyed more to Mrs. Twomey than any statement of fact could achieve. "Well, well! I'm proud out of him, the poor child!
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