They're not married yet--but it's as good--so hould your prate about it till the knot's tied--then trumpet it through the town if you like." The stranger felt that to enter into an altercation with two such persons would be perfect madness, and only make what now appeared to be already too bad, much worse.

He therefore said, very calmly, "Pat, I assure you, that my journey to Dublin had nothing whatsoever to do with Miss Gourlay's.

The whole matter was accidental.

I know nothing about her; and if any unfortunate reports have gone abroad they are unfounded, and do equal injustice to that lady and to me." "Divil a thing else, now, Paudeen," said Dandy, with a face full of most villanous mystery--that had runaway and elopement in every line of it--and a tone of voice that would have shamed a couple-beggar--"bad scran to the ha'p'orth happened.

So don't be puttin' bad constructions on things too soon.