And would you believe it"?
he added, after a pause, and with a pathetic whisper, "that that Bingley who has made his fortune by me child, gives her but two guineas a week: out of which she finds herself in dresses, and which, added to me own small means, makes our all ?" Now the Captain's means were so small as to be, it may be said, quite invisible.

But nobody knows how the wind is tempered to shorn Irish lambs, and in what marvellous places they find pasture.

If Captain Costigan, whom I had the honour to know, would but have told his history, it would have been a great moral story.

But he neither would have told it if he could, nor could if he would; for the Captain was not only unaccustomed to tell the truth,--he was unable even to think it--and fact and fiction reeled together in his muzzy, whiskified brain.
He began life rather brilliantly with a pair of colours, a fine person and legs, and one of the most beautiful voices in the world.

To his latest day he sang with admirable pathos and humour those wonderful Irish ballads which are so mirthful and so melancholy: and was always the first himself to cry at their pathos.