Hycy and Hanna then went on with their dance, and when it was over, the schoolmaster rose to depart.
"Mr.Burke," said he, "you are and have the reputation of being a perfect gentleman _homo factus ad unguem_--as has been said by the learned little Roman, who, between you and me, was not overburthened with an excess of morality.

I take the liberty, jinteels, of wishing you a good-night--_precor vobia prosperam noctem!_ Ah, I can do it yet; but it wasn't for nothing that I practised the peripatetics in larned Kerry, where the great O'Finigan is not yet forgotten.

I shall now seek a contiguous place of repose, until the consequences of some slight bacchanalin libations on my part shall have dispersed themselves into thin air." He accordingly departed, but from the unsteadiness of his step it was clear that, as he said, the place of his repose must be contiguous indeed.

Had he been conscious of his own motions it is not likely he would have sought for repose in Cavanagh's kiln, then the habitation of the Hogans.

It was probably the fact of the door having been left open, which was generally the case in summer, that induced him to enter--for enter he did--ignorant, it is to be presumed, that the dwelling he was about to enter was then inhabited by the Hogans, whom he very much disrelished.
The place was nearly waste, and had a very desolate look.