He found Mr.Brown and Mr.Hastings much in the same state in which he left them.

The latter, who had been entrusted with all his personal and other property, under certain conditions, that depended upon his return after the term of his sentence should have expired, now restored to him, and again reinstated him on the original terms into all his landed and other property, together with such sums as had accrued from it during his absence, so that he now found himself a wealthy man.

Next to _Cooleen Bawn_, however, one of his first inquiries was after Fergus Reilly, whom he found domiciled with a neighboring middleman as a head servant, or kind of under steward.

We need not describe the delight of Fergus on once more meeting his beloved relative at perfect liberty, and free from all danger in his native land.
"Fergus," said Reilly, "I understand you are still a bachelor--how does that come ?" "Why, sir," replied Fergus, "now that you know every thing about the unhappy state of the _Cooleen Bawn_, surely you can't blame poor Ellen for not desartin' her.

As for me I cared nothing about any other girl, and I never could let either my own dhrame, or what you said was yours, out o' my head.