Tea or coffee?
there's the rum if you like it 'chasse.'" I immediately obeyed the injunction, and commenced a vigorous assault upon the trout, caught, as he informed me, "within twenty perches of the house." "Your poor friend's nose is scarcely regimental," said he, "this morning; and as for Fin, he was never remarkable for beauty, so, though they might cut and hack, they could scarcely disfigure him, as Juvenal says--isn't it Juvenal?
"'Vacuus viator cantabit ante Latronem;' "or in the vernacular: "'The empty traveller may whistle Before the robber and his pistil' (pistol)." "There's the Chili vinegar--another morsel of the trout ?" "I thank you; what excellent coffee, Father Malachi!" "A secret I learned at St.Omer's some thirty years since.

Any letters, Bridget ?"--to a damsel that entered with a pacquet in her hand.
"A gossoon from Kilrush, y'r reverence, with a bit of a note for the gentleman there." "For me!--ah, true enough.

Harry Lorrequer, Esq.

Kilrush--try Carrigaholt." So ran the superscription--the first part being in a lady's handwriting; the latter very like the "rustic paling" of the worthy Mrs.Healy's style.

The seal was a large one, bearing a coronet at top, and the motto in old Norman--French, told me it came from Callonby.
With what a trembling hand and beating heart I broke it open, and yet feared to read it--so much of my destiny might be in that simple page.
For once in my life my sanguine spirit failed me; my mind could take in but one casualty, that Lady Jane had divulged to her family the nature of my attentions, and that in the letter before me lay a cold mandate of dismissal from her presence for ever.
At last I summoned courage to read it; but having scrupled to present to my readers the Reverend Father Brennan at the tail of a chapter, let me not be less punctilious in the introduction of her ladyship's billet..