He counts on having eighty sheep down there at the long crofts, and a cow or two besides.

That's money's worth, girl!' Another silence followed, after which he said, 'And I think worse of the Greek scoundrel than all the cost.' 'Somehow, I have no fear that he'll come here ?' 'You'll have to talk over Peter, Kitty'-- he always said Kitty when he meant to coax her.

'He'll mind you, and at all events, you don't care about his grumbling.

Tell him it's a sudden call on me for railroad shares, or'-- and here he winked knowingly--'say, it's going to Rome the money is, and for the Pope!' 'That's an excellent thought, papa,' said she, laughing; 'I'll certainly tell him the money is going to Rome, and you'll write soon--you see with what anxiety she expects your answer.' 'I'll write to-night when the house is quiet, and there's no racket nor disturbance about me.' Now though Kearney said this with a perfect conviction of its truth and reasonableness, it would have been very difficult for any one to say in what that racket he spoke of consisted, or wherein the quietude of even midnight was greater than that which prevailed there at noonday.

Never, perhaps, were lives more completely still or monotonous than theirs.