a maudlin gravity of deportment still
more honorable to the admirable principles of the woman who occasioned
it.

One of the latter, for instance, named Bat Hanratty, exclaimed, after
they had bade her good, night, and expressed their unaffected sorrow for
the severe loss she was about to sustain:

"Well, well, you may all talk; but be the powdhers o' delf, nothin'
barrin' the downright grace o' God could sup--sup--port that dacent
mother of ould Fardorougha--I mane of his son, poor Connor. But the
truth is, you see, that there's nothin'--nothin' no, the divil saize the
hap'o'rth at all, good, bad, or indifferent aquil to puttin' your trust
in God; bekase, you see--Con Roach, I say--bekase you see, when a man
does that as he ought to do it; for it's all faisthelagh if you go the
wrong way about it; but Con--Condy, I say, you're a dacent man, an' it
stands to raison--it does, boys--upon my soul it does. It wasn't for
nothin' that money was lost upon myself, when I was takin' in the
edjigation; and maybe, if Connor O'Donovan, that is now goin' to suffer,
poor fellow--

For the villain swore away my life, an' all by perjuree;
And for that same I die wid shame upon the gallows tree.

So, as I was sayin', why didn't Connor come in an' join the boys like
another, an' then we could settle Bartle for staggin' against him. For,
you see, in regard o'. that, Condy, it doesn't signify a traneen whether
he put a match to the haggard or not; the thing is, you know, that even
if he did, Bartle daren't sweat against him widout breakin' his first
oath to the boys; an' if he did it afther that, an' brought any of them
into throuble conthrary to the articles, be gorra he'd be entitled to
get a gusset opened undher one o' his ears, any how. But you see, Con,
be the book--God pardon me for swearin'--but be the book, the mother has
the thrue! ralligion in her heart, or she'd never stand it the way she
does, an' that proves what I was axpoundin'; that afther all, the sorra
hap'-o'rth aquil to the grace o' God."

He then sang a comic song, and, having passed an additional eulogium
on the conduct of Honor O'Donovan, concluded by exhibiting some rather
unequivocal symptoms of becoming pathetic from sheer sympathy; after
which the stiporific effect of his libations soon hushed him into a
snore that acted as a base to the shrill tones in which his companions I
addressed one another from each side of the car.

Fardorougha, ever, si