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Lynn took the lead with a clear, distinct order, "Take off the lid, Andy," he said. "An' why not? Isn't his riverince a magistrate? Go in, Andy, yer sowl ye, and off wid it." Thus the crowd. So encouraged, the blacksmith stepped forward. Without much difficulty he burst the insecure fastenings and removed the lid. The constables turned their bull's-eyes on the inside of the coffin.
"D' yer mane his Riverince nursed you and yer mother through the shmall pox?" demanded McCann. Several of the workmen stopped short with hammers uplifted to hear Antoine's answer.
"Pale, but resolute, attended by two trembling altar boys with bell and censer, Father Mulcahy advanced in front of the astonished cause of this unwonted disturbance. "'In the name of the Blessed Thrinity, I command you to retire from this blissid an' sacred church to the place from whence you came. "'An' why wud I go back, your riverince? Shure, the body's buried, an' I've no call there now.
O'Rourke, wandering retrospectively in the mazes of the marriage service, "to have and to howld till death bad luck to him! takes one or the ither of us." "You're a blasphemous creature," said Mrs. Bilkins, severely. "Thim's the words his riverince spake this mornin', standin' foreninst us," explained Mr. O'Rourke. "I stood here, see, and me jew'l stood there, and the howly chaplain beyont."
He was barefooted, bareheaded, and only one suspinder was between him and the police. 'Is your mother bad? asked his riverince. 'Dochtor says she'll die afore mornin', says the gossoon. 'Will you lind me a horse, Phelim? asked his riverince. 'You ride a horse, with that leg! says Phelim. 'No, I'll drive you, in the cart; and he went off to the stables.
"'Yis, your riverence, if I know meself I am. "'Will you go to the font an' thrink a taste of the holy wather? "'Yes, your riverince, an it's plasin' to ye.
"How do you do, Mrs. Murphy?" Ashe asked. "Are you any better to-day?" "No better, thank yer riverince. I'll never be better again. My back is broke, and the pain in me is like purgatory already." The slatternly girl laid her paper on her knees, but she neither rose nor spoke. To Maurice she seemed to have an air of contempt. "I am sorry to hear it, Mrs. Murphy," said Ashe.
He'll not be liking that, your riverince; and he'll be uneasy to think maybe he had some small thing to do with it himself. Not that I say he did," she added hastily. "His little fun wouldn't be the cause of harm to me as is used to his ways, but maybe he'll be after thinking so.
He took me to a dozen or more of the dock masters. 'Give 'im a lift, my hearty, he said to the first of them. 'He's a green. I have never forgotten the kindness of that Irishman, whom I came to know well in good time. Remembering that day and others I always greeted him with a hearty 'God bless the Irish! every time I passed him, and he would answer, 'Amen, an' save yer riverince.
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