Here comes a shower, let us move on, and reach Ballymacan, if possible, before it falls.

We shall be home in fair time for dinner afterwards, and then for my proposal, which, by the word and honor--" "And morality ?" "Nonsense, Harry; is a man to speak nothing but truth or Scripture in this world ?--No--which I say by the honor of a gentleman, it will be your interest to consider and accept." "Very well, most accomplished.

We shall see, and we shall hear, and then we shall determine." A ham and turkey were substituted for the pig's cheek and fowl, and we need not say that Hycy and his friend accepted of the substitution with great complacency.

Dinner having been discussed, and a bottle of wine finished, the punch came in, and each, after making himself a stiff tumbler, acknowledged that he felt comfortable.

Hycy, however, anxious that he should make an impression, or in other words gain his point, allowed Clinton to grow a little warm with liquor before he opened the subject to which he had alluded.