" said Jane.

"It'll be a very little turn, then," said Meg; "I'm sick of the nasty
ould place; fancy coming down here, Matilda, to the tobacco and
sugar, after living up there a month or so, with everything nice and
comfortable! And it's only mother's whims, for she don't want the shop.
Anty begged and prayed of her for to come and live at Dunmore House for
good and all; but no; she says she'll never live in any one's house
that isn't her own."

"I'm not so, any way," said Jane; "I'd be glad enough to live in
another person's house av I liked it."

"I'll go bail you would, my dear," said Matilda; "willing
enough--especially John Dolan's."

"Oh! av I iver live in that it'll be partly my own, you know; and
may-be a girl might do worse."

"That's thrue, dear," said Matilda; "but John Dolan's not so soft as to
take any girl just as she stands. What does your mother say about the
money part of the business?"

And so the two friends put their heads together, to arrange another
wedding, if possible.

Martin and Anty did not go to visit Switzerland, or Rome, as soon as
they were married; but they took a bathing-lodge at Renvill, near
Galway, and with much difficulty, persuaded Mrs Kelly to allow both her
daughters to accompany them. And very merry they all were. Anty soon
became a different creature from what she ever had been: she learned
to be happy and gay; to laugh and enjoy the sunshine of the world. She
had always been kind to others, and now she had round her those who
were kind and affectionate to her. Her manner of life was completely
changed: indeed, life itself was an altered thing to her. It was so new
to her to have friends; to be loved; to be one of a family who regarded
and looked up to her. She hardly knew herself in her new happiness.

They returned to Dunmore in the early autumn, and took up their
residence at Sim Lynch's big house, as had been arranged. Martin was
very shy about it: it was long before he talked about it as his house,
or his ground, or his farm; and it was long before he could find
himself quite at home in his own parlour.

Many attempts were made to induce the widow to give up the inn, and
shift her quarters to the big house, but in vain. She declared that,
ould as she was, she wouldn't think of making herself throublesome to
young folks; who, may-be, afther a bit, would a dail sooner have her
room than her company: that she had always been misthress, and mostly
masther too, in h