If you had more sharpness or sinse I might say--Meehaul Neil," she added, elevating her voice, "what do you think I could say, this sacred moment! Your sister! Why she's a good girl!--true enough that: but how long she may be so's another affair.

Afeard! Be the ground we stand on, man dear, if you an' all belongin' to you, had eyes in your heads for every day in the year, you couldn't keep her from young Lamh Laudher.

Did you hear anything ?" "I'd not believe a word of it," said Meehaul calmly, and he turned to depart.
"I tell you it's as true as the sun to the dial," replied Nell; "and I tell you more, he's wid her this minnit behind your father's orchard! Ay! an' if you wish you may see them together wid your own eyes, an' sure if you don't b'lieve me, you'll b'lieve them.

But, Meehaul, take care of him; for he has his fire-arms; if you meet him don't go empty-handed, and I'd advise you to have the first shot." "Behind the orchard," said Meehaul, astonished; "where there ?" "Ay, behind the orchard, where they often war afore.

Where there?
Why, if you want to know that, sittin' on one of the ledges in the Grassy Quarry.