ions as
attorney.

[FOOTNOTE 32: amende honorable--(French) apology]

"Will you authorise me to see Martin Kelly, and to treat with him?
You'll find it the cheapest thing you can do; and, more than that,
it'll be what nobody can blame you for."

"How treat with him?--I owe him nothing--I don't see what I've got to
treat with him about. Am I to offer him half the property on condition
he'll consent to marry my sister? Is that what you mean?"

"No: that's not what I mean; but it'll come to much the same thing in
the end. In the first place, you must withdraw all opposition to Miss
Lynch's marriage; indeed, you must give it your direct sanction; and,
in the next place, you must make an amicable arrangement with Martin
about the division of the property."

"What--coolly give him all he has the impudence to ask?--throw up the
game altogether, and pitch the whole stakes into his lap?--Why, Daly,
you--"

"Well, Mr Lynch, finish your speech," said Daly, looking him full in
the face.

Barry had been on the point of again accusing the attorney of playing
false to him, but he paused in time; he caught Daly's eye, and did not
dare to finish the sentence which he had begun.

"I can't understand you, I mean," said he; "I can't understand what
you're after: but go on; may-be you're right, but I can't see, for the
life of me. What am I to get by such a plan as that?"

Barry was now cowed and frightened; he had no dram-bottle by him to
reassure him, and he became, comparatively speaking, calm and subdued.
Indeed, before the interview was over he fell into a pitiably
lachrymose tone, and claimed sympathy for the many hardships he had to
undergo through the ill-treatment of his family.

"I'll try and explain to you, Mr Lynch, what you'll get by it. As
far as I can understand, your father left about eight hundred a-year
between the two--that's you and your sisther; and then there's the
house and furniture. Nothing on earth can keep her out of her property,
or prevent her from marrying whom she plases. Martin Kelly, who is
an honest fellow, though sharp enough, has set his eye on her, and
before many weeks you'll find he'll make her his wife. Undher these
circumstances, wouldn't he be the best tenant you could find for
Dunmore? You're not fond of the place, and will be still less so when
he's your brother-in-law. Lave it altogether, Mr Lynch; give him a
laise of the whole concern, and if you'll do that now at once, take
m