Thinks I, this is no bad sign! Now, cock up your ears, Pat! for the great news is coming, and the good.

The master's come home--long life to him!--and family come home yesterday, all entirely! The OULD lord and the young lord (ay, there's the man, Paddy!), and my lady, and Miss Nugent.

And I driv Miss Nugent's maid, that maid that was, and another; so I had the luck to be in it along WID 'em, and see all, from first to last.

And first, I must tell you, my young Lord Colambre remembered and noticed me the minute he lit at our inn, and condescended to beckon at me out of the yard to him, and axed me--'Friend Larry,' says he, 'did you keep your promise ?'--'My oath again' the whisky, is it ?' says I.'My lord, I surely did,' said I; which was true, as all the country knows I never tasted a drop since.
'And I'm proud to see your honour, my lord, as good as your word too, and back again among us.

So then there was a call for the horses; and no more at that time passed betwix' my young lord and me, but that he pointed me out to the OULD one, as I went off.