[Willy Reilly by William Carleton]@TWC D-Link bookWilly Reilly CHAPTER VIII 25/33
So far make your mind easy.
The consequence is, that if you labor under no ecclesiastical censure you may exercise all the functions of your office--that is, as well as you can, and as far as you dare." "Well, that same's a comfort," said the priest; "but the report was, and is, that we are to be registered.
However, be that as it may, I have been a perfect Proteus.
The metamorphoses of Ovid were nothing to mine. I have represented every character in society at large; to-day I've been a farmer, and to-morrow a poor man (a mendicant), sometimes a fool--a rare character, you know, in this world--and sometimes a tiddler, for I play a little." "And which character did you prefer among them all ?" asked Reilly, with a smile which he could not repress. "Oh, in troth, you needn't ask that, Mr.R .-- hem--you needn't ask that. The first morning I took to the fiddle I was about to give myself up to government at once.
As for my part, I'd be ashamed to tell you how sent those that were unlucky enough to ear my music scampering across the country." "And, pray, how long is that since ?" "Why, something better than three weeks, the Lord pity me!" "And what description of dress did you wear on that occasion ?" asked Reilly. "Dress-why, then, an old yellow caubeen, a blue frieze coat, and--movrone, oh! a striped breeches.
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