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Cokely, says I, back to him, 'I'll giye up the succession; says I, 'and what is more, I'll grant that you have been called by the Lord, and that I have not; but the Lord that called you, says I, 'was Lord Foxhunter. Man, you'd tie his Lordship wid a cobweb, he laughed so heartily. "'Bravo, Father Kavanagh, said he.
"Yes," said Mat; "and she's a hundred thousand exceedingly fine charms too, independently of her fine face." "So I hear," said Cokely; "but I only believe half of what I hear about those things." "She has more than that; I know it." "Has she though? Faith, do you know I think Kilcullen has a mind to keep it in the family. He's very soft on her, and she's just as sweet to him.
Fanny felt very little inclined to talk, and even Kilcullen, with all his knowledge of womankind with all his assurance, had some difficulty in commencing what he had to get said and done that morning. "So Grey Abbey will once more sink into its accustomed dullness," said he. "Cokely went yesterday, and Tierney and the Ellisons go to-day. Don't you dread it, Fanny?"
I shouldn't be surprised if he were to marry now, and turn steady." "Not at all; there are two reasons against it. In the first place, he's too much dipped for even Fanny's fortune to be any good to him; and secondly, she's engaged." "What, to Ballindine?" said Cokely. "Exactly so," said Mat. "Ah, my dear fellow, that's all off long since. I heard Kilcullen say so myself.
The O'Joscelyns would be delighted; Mat Tierney would be very proud; Captain Cokely would do himself the honour; and, last but not least, Mr. Murray would preside below stairs for a serious consideration. What a pity so much trouble should have been taken! They might all have stayed at home; for Fanny Wyndham will never become Lady Kilcullen.
They say he and his father never speak, except just in public, to avoid the show of the thing." And the two old ladies set to work to a good dish of scandal. "Miss Wyndham's an exceedingly fine girl," said Captain Cokely to Mat Tierney, as they were playing a game of piquet in the little drawing-room.
June 16. Dennis Cokely and Tomtit Tomson had a fite behind Hirvey's resterent today. Hirvey stopped them jest as they were having a good one. Thats jest the way. i dont see why they always want to stop a fite. All fellers fite for is to see which can lick, and how can they tell unless they fite it out. June 17. Brite and fair. They is going to be a big cattle show here this fall.
'Cokely, you're bale, said he; 'and upon my honor you must both dine with me to-day, says he and capital claret he keeps." "Your health, Father Kavanagh, an' God spare you to us! Hah! wather! Oh, the divil a taste itself did the same stuff see! Why, thin, I think your Reverence an' me's about an age. I bleeve. I'm a thrifle oulder; but I don't bear it so well as you do.
Captain Cokely, and a Mr Battersby, came over from Newbridge barracks, but they did not add much to the general enjoyment of the party, though their arrival was hailed with delight by some of the young ladies. At any rate they made the rooms look less forlorn in the evenings, and made it worth the girls' while to put on their best bibs and tuckers.
Or if any man an' he'd be' nothing else than a bodagh that would say it if any man would tell me that you would not, I'd yes I'd give him his answer, as good as I gave to ould Cokely long ago, and you all know what that was. "The next point is, what would you do if you hadn't it about you? Can there be a more melancholy picture than this? No, there can't.
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