" Sure , Tom, you won't let them nits fall in pieces for the want of minding; and many's the time I tould you this, but you don't give any heed to me ." "A body can't be always working," replied Tom, " I'm tired after the day, and glad to get some rest."
" That's always your tune" continued she. " Sure you don't work harder than me, and I'm always at it, tooth and nail, but your turning a great scolard on our hands -- all at wanst too -- arra what good will your glummerin over that book do you, will ye tell us ?"
"I hope it will do me good Molly, and as for working, indeed, I think it does'nt break your heart no more than another ."
" Aye ," retorted she, " that's all the thanks I have, for my strivin' an' my strugglin ', early and late, God help me, I might as well sit quiet, but what sort of a book is that, at all at all ? it's very pleasant no doubt, you're so fond of it."
" Why Molly, if I mind what is in this book, it will teach me how to go to heaven."
"And what do you want to know Tom, more nor Father Peter tells you, or the neighbours knows , may be that's the book he says makes people hereticks, sure you would'nt be mad to read it, after all the priest says agin it?"
Tom was at first unwilling to own that he read the Scriptures, knowing the opposition of Father Peter, but another taunt from his wife roused him, and he replied.
"I don't care what the priest, or any body says, I'll read the bible while I can see a letter, and let me see who'll hinder me."

" Sure , Tom, you won't let them nits fall in pieces for the want of minding; and many's the time I tould you this, but you don't give any heed to me ." "A body can't be always working," replied Tom, " I'm tired after the day, and glad to get some rest."
" That's always your tune" continued she. " Sure you don't work harder than me, and I'm always at it, tooth and nail, but your turning a great scolard on our hands -- all at wanst too -- arra what good will your glummerin over that book do you, will ye tell us ?"
"I hope it will do me good Molly, and as for working, indeed, I think it does'nt break your heart no more than another ."
" Aye ," retorted she, " that's all the thanks I have, for my strivin' an' my strugglin ', early and late, God help me, I might as well sit quiet, but what sort of a book is that, at all at all ? it's very pleasant no doubt, you're so fond of it."
" Why Molly, if I mind what is in this book, it will teach me how to go to heaven."
"And what do you want to know Tom, more nor Father Peter tells you, or the neighbours knows , may be that's the book he says makes people hereticks, sure you would'nt be mad to read it, after all the priest says agin it?"
Tom was at first unwilling to own that he read the Scriptures, knowing the opposition of Father Peter, but another taunt from his wife roused him, and he replied.
"I don't care what the priest, or any body says, I'll read the bible while I can see a letter, and let me see who'll hinder me."

The day following that on which O'Hara had gone to church, Molly set off to the Priest's to make another complaint.
"And what can I do with him?" said his reverence, after hearing her story, "if he chooses to go to the devil in his own way, why let him go, the reprobate."
" Well now , I thought, Father Peter, you could do something for me, I'm tired of my life with him."
"Why, does he treat you badly?"
"No Sir, nere a word he speaks in anger, only I'm afeard he's goin to turn, and sure if he does, it's no more nor his betters shows him the way for."
"What do you mean, Molly?"
" Sure , Sir, there's Mr. O'Hara come agin to the master's, and went to church with them yesterday."
"This is some foolish report of the country; I cannot believe it."
" Nere a one word of lie in it, Sir, for John Foley, the boy that drives the car, tould them that was telling it in our house last night."
"Did the boy see Mr. O'Hara go to church?"
" To be sure , Sir, did'nt he go in the car with the Doctor and the young lady -- dear Father Peter I think you could take that book from Tom."

In a short time, an elderly woman, who had been standing at the grave, rushed through the crowd, and throwing herself on her knees, clasped her arms about Edmund. Setting up a wild cry, in wihch she was joined by all the other keeners present, who accompanied her in a kind of mounrful recitative, perculiar I believe to the lamentation of the Irish, she addressed Edmund thus:
" Arra cushla-ma-chree , is it yourself that's there, stretched on the corp of your own dear father; och , och , its a black day for you a vourneen , and for us all. Look up, jewel, and see who's by you, acushla , one that loves the ground you walk on; that nursed you at her own breast and gave you the veins of her heart to feed on. Oh! lanna , lanna , never more will the eye of father and mother smile upon you: they lie low, that lov'd you, a-cushla , as never child was lov'd . Silent and low do they lie -- and knows not that the pride of their eyes is bent over them in sorrow; but now without father, without mother, -- friend or brother; for my darlin' , I doubt you'll hardly find the welcome of a brother from them that ought to give it to you.

" Well , a-cushla ," said she, "after I was wid you yesterday, I had a little business wid Father Luke, and went to his house."
"And pray," interrupted Edmund, "did your business in any way relate to me?" for it just occurred to him that she was prompted by some person to teize him about the old subject, and he suspected the priest.
"Yes, to be sure , jewel," answered she; but after a moment's pause, added, "No, dear, I'm raving, it was all my own business. So as I was telling you, I came here, and the night being dark an' stormy, Father Luke, God bless him, would not let me go home, and I went to bed purty soon, for I was tired."
"What has all this to do with me?" again interrupted Edmund.
" Asy yet, honey, have a little patience and you'll hear all. So, dear, I don't know how long I was asleep, I think it was far in the night, when I felt something stir me in the bed, I opened my eyes, but och! my jewel, how will I tell what I seen , the holy Virgin save me --"
She paused, gasping for breath. Edmund here remarked, it was impossible she could see in the dark.
" Sure , dear," resumed she, "there was a trifle of light in the room from the moon. Och! it's a wonder the life was'nt frightened out of me, but any way, I'm kilt ."
"What did you see?" exclaimed Edmund, out of patience.
" That's what I'm after going to tell you , dear. Well sorra pater or ave could myself say; there was up close to the bed, a thing as tall as the room, all in white, like a corp ; well , dear, the could water was powerin' off me, when I heard the thing call me, Nancy -- Nancy -- Nancy -- three times, telling me it was your father, God rest his sowl ; in a minit I could speak, and I axed what troubled him, or brought him back again."

Next morning, she went to the Parsonage, and had a long interview with Edmund, exerting all her eloquence to forward the priest's views, but in vain. O'Hara declared he would neither go to his brother's, nor Father Luke's.
"And dear jewel?," said nurse, "when will you be made a priest? for you know, that's what your dear father, Lord receive him, wished you to be."
"I will never enter the Church, nurse," replied Edmund.
After a few of her usual crossings and exclamations, she asked what he meant to do. He said he could not tell at present, that he had formed no plan of life yet.
"But sure , a-cushla , you're not going to turn?"
"What do you mean nurse?"
" Sure you would'nt leave the true Church, jewel?"
"And what if I did? in my opinion one Church is as true as another."
"God forgive you, dear, for saying that, any way; sure there's but the one true Church, and that's our own, a-vourneen ."
"Nonsense, nurse, don't believe this, one sort will go to heaven, as soon as another."

The Priest, exasperated beyond all patience, denounced the vengeance of the church against Tom, in the hearing of every one present, and refused to partake of the dinner prepared for the occasion, to Molly's great dismay; for in her anxiety to make much of the Priest, she had killed the fattest goose and turkey, with sundry other fowls, to furnish the dinner, and declared she had in the house as good a drop of the crathur as any body need wish to drink, with raal white sugar, to make punch for his raverence , and now was'nt it a poor case, after all the cost she went to, that he would'nt stay; but sure what could the gentleman do when Tom went agin him, and affronted him.
She then set up the Irish cry, lamenting her hard fate, with many appropriate ejaculations.

Lady Dorimon did not appear in very good humour; she threw herself down on the chair the Captain drew for her, and told him she was wastly sorry that she had discommodicated him, as she had only called to ax Mrs. Clarkson how she did, and have a bit of a chat with her; "for you knows " Sir, added she, " vomen generally likes to open their minds to one another; howsomever , I will leave my tickut , and take my leave."
"I expect her every minute," said Littleframe, "if your ladyship would like to wait a little."
"O dear no, I thank ye , replied she, coldly, "I has got to go, and call this morning on some of my rich city acquaintances; we, in the city, has the money after all, Captain Littleframe."
[Littleframe's dialogue omitted]
"Ah! lawk !" interrupted her polite ladyship, "what " sennifies " considering? when one can't get this vealth ! I declares , Sir Philip makes me sick with his considering ; and that wulgar expression, I'll consider of it , I tells him, is for ever and amen in his mouth."
"And yet, my lady," said Littleframe, with a smile, "people of very high consequence are very apt to make use of that expression."
"Why, lawk ! you don't say so?" said Lady Dorimon, "see how a title natterally makes one feel one's consequence! I declares , Sir Philip scarce ever used to use that expression afore he was knighted. Well , I really does'nt know whether there does'nt sound something grand in saying, " I'll consider of it ." Well , I must be off, and get into my baroutch again directly. So I wishes you a good morning, Sir. Now I'll just tell you, I means to make up a match with your brother officer --"

" Lawk ! good voman , you railly frighted me! vhy vhat if it is such a pulbeaun hour?" "But three is the hour at which we always dine; and my father on no account will sit down to a table without me, unless he knows I am gone to dine out." "Well, then," said Lady Dorimon, "you had better, ma'am , get out here, and I shall go home to Pemlico ; you lives in such a hout of the way place, that railly you must quite excuse my coming to call on you so often as I used to; for we lives almost close to the pallis , as it's a purdigious distance to drive for a morning call."

When they were passing several of the negroes in the yard at the back of the house, he observed a smile on their faces, which he took to himself; but, if he had not, it would soon have been confirmed to him beyond a doubt, that he was the subject; for when they thought he was beyond hearing, he heard one of them exclaim to the others, " Eh! mosquitoes, hab grandy nyamn on dat new buckra !"
Marly being ignorant of the negro corrupted dialect, or the talkee talkee language, did not understand the expression; but observing Graceson to smile, with combined smothered feelings of anger and shame, he asked an explanation of what the negro had said. Graceson laughing, answered, that "the negro only meant, that the mosquitoes had had an excellent feast on your rich blood."