And these two loved each other so well that the heart they gave me is half Irish and half American.

My father died when I was sixteen.

I used to go to the States with my mother every other year for a month or two.

But after my father died we used to go to Ireland every other year.

And there you are--I'm as much American as I am Irish.
"When I'm in love, or excited, or dreaming, or mad I have the brogue.
But for the everyday purpose of life I like the United States talk, and I know Broadway as well as I do Binevenagh Lane, and the Sound as well as St.Patrick's Channel; educated a bit at Eton, a bit at Harvard; always too much money to have to make any; in love lots of times, and never a heartache after that wasn't a pleasant one, and never a real purpose in life until I took the king's shilling and earned my wings; something over thirty--and that's me--Larry O'Keefe." "But it was the Irish O'Keefe who sat out there waiting for the banshee," I laughed.
"It was that," he said somberly, and I heard the brogue creep over his voice like velvet and his eyes grew brooding again.