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"He never cared a damn for either o' them, for all that," returned Toal; "that is, mind, if he tuck a thing into his head; ay, an' I'll go farther divil a rap ever he cared for them, one way or other. No, the man has no fear of any kind in him." "Why, Toal," said Mooney, "whether he cares for them or not, I think is aisily decided; and whether he's the great man you make him.
"In that respect," replied Toal, "I'm ladin' the life of a murdherer. I can't set my face out but there's a pursuit after me chased an' hunted like a bag fox; devil a lie I'm tellin' you." "But do you intend to marry still, Toal?" asked Frank; "bekaise if you don't, it would be only raisonable for you to make it generally known that your mind's made up to die a bachelor."
Among the rest, the first to come in was little Toal Finnigan, who, in addition to his other virtues, possessed a hardness of head by which we mean a capacity for bearing drink that no liquor, or no quantity of liquor, could overcome. "Well," said Toal, "sure it's very reasonable that you should be out of ordher; after bein' seven years from it, it doesn't come so natural to you as it would do.
Little Toal, who drank more liquor than any two among them, and Frank himself, were the only sober persons present, all the rest having successfully imitated the example set them by Art, who was carried to bed at an early hour in the evening. This was but an indifferent preparation for his resolution to commence work on Monday morning, as the event proved.
"Then, since you will go, Art, listen to me; you'll be apt to meet Toal Finnigan there; now, as you love me and your childre, an' as you wish to avoid evil and misfortune, don't do any one thing that he proposes to you: I've often tould you that he's your bitterest enemy." In about an hour mind." He then went out.
N. B. None but Teetotallers need come here." Now every one knew Toal too well not to understand this; for the truth is, that maugre his sign, he never refused his meal or other goods to any one that had money to pay for them.
"Throth, then, I'm sorry for that," said Toal, "for she's a woman I don't like; an' I now say beforehand, that devil a traneen she'll be the betther of me, Art." "Settle that," replied Art, "between you; at all events, be ready on Sunday next the christenin's fixed for it."
"Ay," said Toal, "an' will, too, as ever you seen him in your lives; only whin I'm praisin' him do some of you oppose me, an' if I propose any thing to be done, do you all either support me in it, or go aginst me, accordin' as you see he may take it."
Frank winked at Art, who, instead of returning the wink, as he ought to have done, shut both his eyes, and then looked at Toal with an expression of great compassion as if he wished to say, Poor fellow, I don't think he can be so bad-hearted as the world gives him credit for. "Come, Toal," he replied, laughing, "none of your bother now.
At any rate, for one o' my blood was never done out, and never will." "By Japers," said Whiskey, "I knew he wouldn't let himself be bate. I knew when it came to the push he wouldn't." "Well, Barney," said Toal, "don't make them strong for him, for they might get into his head; he hasn't a good head anyway let them be rather wake, Barney."
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