Come, ladies--and, by the way, where's my favorite, Miss Julia--from you ?" "She's not quite well this morning, Cannie," said her mother; "she has a slight headache, I believe." "Well, Miss Mary, then?
Any purchases to-day, Miss Mary ?" "Not to-day, Cannie--the next time, perhaps." "Cannie," said Purcel, "you praised your razors very highly at your last visit;--have you a good case this morning ?" "Haven't I, sir?
Wait till you see them." He then produced a case, which the proctor purchased, and thus closed his sales for that day.
The pedlar, however, notwithstanding that his commercial transactions had been concluded, seemed somehow in no hurry.

On the contrary, he took up his pack and exclaimed, "I must go back to the kitchen, till I see what can be done there in the way of business; hearin' that you were finishin' breakfast, I hurried up here to sell my goods and have my chat." "Very well, Cannie," said the proctor, "try the folks below, and success to you!" The pedlar once more sought the kitchen, where he lingered in fact more like a man who seemed fatigued than otherwise, inasmuch as his eyes occasionally closed, and his head nodded, in spite of him.

He kept, however, constantly watching and peeping into the yard and lawn from time to time, as if he expected to see somebody.

At length he got tip and was about to go, when he said to Letty Lenehan:--"Ah, thin, Letty, afore I go I'd give a trifle that Miss Julia 'ud see a bracelet I got since I was here last; divil sich a beauty ever was seen." "Very well, Cannie, I'll tell her if you wish." "Then, Letty, may it rain honeycombs an you, an' do.

I'll go round to the hall-door, 'say, and she can look at them there; an' see, Letty, say the sorra foot I'll go from the place till she sees it: that it'll be worth her while; and that if she knew how I got it, she'd fly--if she had wings--to get a glimpse of it." He had not been more than a minute or two at the hall-door when Julia, struck by the earnestness of the man's language, which lost nothing in the transmission, made her appearance.
"Well now, Cannie," said she, "what wonderful matter is this you have got to show me ?" "Here it is, Miss Julia," said he, in his usual jocular and somewhat loud voice, "here it is, I'll have it in a minute--listed, Miss Julia," he added, in a solemn and impressive undertone: "what I'm goin' to say is more to you than aither life or death.