Polly, I could tell you something if I wished--I say I have a secret that none o' them knows--ay, have I.Oh, God pardon me! The d----d thieves, to make me, me above all men, do the blackest part of the business--an' to think o' the way they misled Edward, too--who, after all, would be desavin' poor Lady Gourlay, if he had tould her all as he thought, although he did not know that he would be misleadin' her.

Yes, faith, I'll start for the country tomorrow, plaise God; but listen, Polly, do you know who's in town ?" "Arra, no!--how could I ?" "Kate M'Bride, so Ginty tells me; she's livin' with her." "And why didn't she call to see you ?" asked his wife.

"And yet God knows it's no great loss; but if ever woman was cursed wid a step-daughter, I was wid her." "Don't you know very well that we never spoke since her runaway match with M'Bride.

If she had married Cummins, I'd a' given her a purty penny to help him on; but instead o' that she cuts off with a sojer, bekaise he was well faced, and starts with him to the Aist Indies.

No; I wouldn't spake to her then, and I'm not sure I'll spake to her now either; and yet I'd like to see her--the unfortunate woman.