"But come--you can come wid me as far as the turn-up to the house; for I won't go in, nor go home neither, till afther the berril, tomorrow." "Do you know," said he, rather gravely, "the Grey Stone that's at the mouth of the Black Glen ?" "I ought," said she; "sure that's where the carman was found murdhered." "The same," added Hanlon.

"Well, I must go that far to-night," said he.
"And that's jist where I turn off to the Gormly's." "So far, then, we'll be together," he replied.
"But why that far only, Charley--eh ?" "That's what you could never guess," said he, "and very few else aither; but go I must, an' go I will.

At all events, I'll be company for you in passin' it.

Are you never afeard at night, as you go near it ?" "Divil a taste," she replied; "what 'ud I be afeard of?
my father laughs at sich things; although," she added, musing, "I think he's sometimes timorous for all that.

But I know he's often out at all hours, and he says he doesn't care about ghosts--I know I don't." The conversation now flagged a little, and Hanlon, who had been all the preceding part of the evening full of mirth and levity, could scarcely force himself to reply to her observations, or sustain any part in the dialogue.
"Why, what the sorra's comin' over you ?" she asked, as they began to enter into the shadow of the hill at whose foot her father's cabin stood, and which here, for about two hundred yards, fell across the road.