that was required of him; during which time Keegan remained at
the window, as if he was not hearing a word that passed between the
father and son.

"And does he want us to go clane out of it, Thady?"

"Root and branch, father, for iver and iver; and there'll be the
finish of the Macdermots of Ballycloran; but Larry,"--and he put his
hand, with more tenderness than seemed to belong to his rough nature,
on his father's arm;--"but Larry, you know you'll never want for
anything then; you'll be snug enough jist wherever you plaze; and
your money coming due and paid every week--you'd be better than in
this wretched place; eh Larry?"

"And what's to become of Feemy?"

"Why, we must get Feemy a husband; till then she'll stay with you;
she'll have a thrifle of money herself, you know; she'll be poor
enough, though, God knows!--It's the thought of her that throubles me
most."

"And yourself, Thady, where would you go, till you got Ballycloran
again?"

"Got Ballycloran again! why Larry, you're to sell it outright; clane
away altogether. As for me, I must get a bit of land, I suppose, or
'list, or do something; go to America, perhaps."

"And was it Keegan wanted to buy Ballycloran?"

"Oh, it's between them, I suppose; but what does it matter--Keegan or
Flannelly?"

"And what did you say, Thady?"

"What did I say! Oh, I could say nothing, you know; it's for you to
do it. But, Larry, I think it's the best for you, and you may be sure
I'll not be complaining afther; or saying ill of you for what you
did, when you could do no other."

"And you didn't tell the blackguard ruffian robber to be gone out of
that, when he asked you to dhrive your own family out of your own
house?"

"Whist, father, whist!"

When Keegan heard old Macdermot break out in this way, he was obliged
to turn round: so he walked up to the fire, and said, "Mr. Macdermot,
may I ask who you are speaking of?"

Larry was again commencing, when Thady held him down gently, and
said,

"It's not so asy, Mr. Keegan, for an old man to hear for the first
time, that he's to lave his house and his home for iver; where he and
his father and his grandfather have lived. You'd better let me talk
to him a while."

"Oh! for the matter of that, I don't care for his passion; but if he
means to come to reason, let him do so at once, for as I said before,
I won't wait here all day."

"Nobody wants you to wait--nobody wants you to wait!" said the
father.

"Whist, L