Nor did she herself come off better at his hands.

Whilst he flattered her vanity, and turned her foibles to his own advantage, under the guise of a very dutiful affection, his deportment towards her was marked by an ironical respect, which was the more indefensible and unmanly because she could not see through it.

The poor woman had taken up the opinion, that difficult and unintelligible language was one test of a gentleman; and her son by the use of such language, let no opportunity pass of confirming her in this opinion, and establishing his own claims to the character.
"Where did you ride to this mornin' Misther Hycy ?" "Down to take a look at Tom Burton's mare, Crazy Jane, ma'am:-- "'Away, my boys, to horse away, The Chase admits of no delay--'" "Tom Burton!" re-echoed the father with a groan; "an so you're in Tom Burton's hands! A swindlin', horse-dalin' scoundrel that would chate St.
Pether.

Hycy, my man, if you go to look for wool to Tom you'll come home shorn." "'Our vicar still preaches that Peter and Poule Laid a swinging long curse on the bonny brown bowl, That there's wrath and despair--" Thank you, father--much obliged; you entertain a good opinion of me." "Do I, faith?
Don't be too sure of that." "I've bought her at any rate," said Hycy--"thirty-five's the figure; but she's a dead bargain at fifty." "Bought her!" exclaimed the father; "an' how, in God's name, do you expect to pay for her ?" "By an order on a very excellent, worthy man and gentleman-farmer--ycleped James Burke, Esquire--who has the honor of being father to that ornament of the barony, Hycy Burke, the accomplished.

My worthy sire will fork out." "If I do, that I may--" "Silence, poor creature!" said his wife, clapping her hand upon his mouth--"make no rash or vulgar oaths.