I shall have the Castle dancing with delight--and whisper--but this is honorable between ourselves--any advantages that may result from this affair, you shall partake of.

The Castle and I understand one another, and depend upon it, your name shall be mentioned with all the honor and importance due to it." "This, then, was what you wanted with me ?" "It was, and upon my honor and conscience, you and yours, and I and mine, will have cause to rejoice in it.

Government, my dear Mat--ahem--is a generous benefactor, and aided by it we shall work wonders.

We shall, I trust, all be provided for--your sons and my own fool--M'Carthy, too, we shall not forget.
"All that will be very pleasant, I acknowledge," replied the proctor, dryly, "and in the meantime good-by, and may God spare both you and me long life and happiness--until then, and as long after it as we may wish for." Our friend M'Carthy, who was little aware of the liberal provision which the benevolence of his friend had in contemplation for him, was in the meantime likely to be provided for in a very different manner, and upon principles very much at variance with those of that political gentleman yclept the Castle, an impersonation which it would be exceedingly difficult to define..