Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Then all this time I'm sensible I've been behaving and looking little better than like a fool, or an innocent.—But I hope I won't be so bad when the lady shall speak to me. (The bell rings.) Oh, the bell summons me in here.—(Speaks with her hand on the lock of the door.) The lock's asy enough—I hope I'll take courage—(sighs.)—Asier to spake before one nor two, any way—and asier tin times to the mistress than the maid. (Exit Honor.) SCENE IV. The Highroad—A Cottage in view—Turf- stack, Hay-rick, Sfc. Catty Rooney alone, ivalking backwards and forwards. Catty. 'Tis but a stone's throw to Ballynavogue. But I don't like to begoing into the fair a'-fut (on foot], when I been always used to go in upon my pillion behind my husband when living, and my son Randal, after his death.— Wait, who comes here ?—'Tis Gerald O'Blaney's, the distiller's, young man, Pat Coxe: now we'll larn all—and whether O'Blaney can lend me the loan of a horse, or no.—A good morrow to you kindly, Mr. Pat Coxe. Enter Pat Coxe. Pat. And you the same, Mrs. Roo- ney, tinfold—Mr. O'Blaney has his sar- vices to you, Ma'am.—No not his sar- vices, but his compliments, that was the word,—his kind compliments, that was the very word. Catty. The counsellor's always very kind to me, and genteel. Pat. And was up till past two in the morning, last night, Madam, he bid me say, looking over them papers you left with him for you shuit, Ma'am, withthe M'Brides, about the bit of Ballyna- scraw bog; and if you call upon the counshillor in the course of the morning, he'll find, or make, a minute, for a consultation, he says.—But mane time, to take no step to compromise, or make it up, for your life, Ma'am. Catty. No fear, I'll not give up at law, or any way, to a M'Bride, while I've a drop of blood -in my...