r; _damnho_ to the one; I won't differ wid you in
that."

"You won't differ wid me! the divil thank you for that. You won't
indeed! but could you, I say, if you wor willin'?"

"I tell you I could _not_."

"Now there's sinse an' kindness in that. Very well, you say you're
gatherin' up all the money you can for him."

"For him--him," exclaimed the unconscious miser, "why, what do you
mane--for--well--ay--yes, yes, I did say for him; it's for him I'm
keeping it--it is, I tell you."

"Now, Fardorougha, you know he's ould enough to be settled in life on
his own account, an' you heard last night the girl he can get, if you
stand to him, as he ought to expect from a father that loves him."

"Why, last night, thin, didn't I give my--"

"Whist, ahagur! hould your tongue awhile, and let me go on. Thruth's
best--he dotes on that girl to such a degree, that if he doesn't get
her, he'll never see another happy day while he's alive."

"All _feasthalagh_, Honor--that won't pass wid me; I know otherwise
myself. Do you think that if I hadn't got you, I'd been unhappy
four-an'-twenty hours, let alone my whole life? I tell you that's
_feasthalagh_, an' won't pass. He wouldn't eat an ounce the less if he
was never to get her. You seen the breakfast he made this mornin';
I didn't begrudge it to him, but may I never stir if that Flanagan
wouldn't ate a horse behind the saddle; he has a stomach that'd require
a king's ransom to keep it."

"You know nothing of what I'm spakin' about," replied his wife. "I
wasn't _Una dhas dhun_ O'Brien in my best days; an' be the vestment, you
warn't Connor, that has more feelin', an' spirit, an' generosity in the
nail of his little finger than ever you had in your whole carcass. I
tell you if he doesn't get married to that girl he'll break his heart.
Now how can he marry her except you take a good farm for him, and stock
it dacently, so that he may have a home sich as she desarves to bring
her to?"

"How do you know but they'll give her a fortune when they find her bent
on him?"

"Why, it's not unpossible," said the wife, immediately changing her
tactics, "it's not impossible, but I can tell you it's very unlikely."

"The best way, then, in my opinion, 'ud be to spake to Connor about
breaking it to the family."

"Why, that's fair enough," said the wife. "I wondher myself I didn't
think of it, but the time was so short since last night."

"It is short," replied the miser, "far an' away too sh