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."

" 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."

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.

"Molly, indeed!" said my lady, "Please, Sir Philip, when you speak to me, to call me my lady, or Lady Dorimon; if you doesn't know manners, I must larn them you. I always calls you Sir Philip; and I don't look vell , Sir Philip, besides, Sir Philip, if I do, Sir Philip, I've an inward complaint."

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 --"

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."

Mrs. Cameron endeavoured, at this dinner, to make herself particularly amiable; she even tried to throw as much softness as possible into her fierce and anxious eye; and she played off all the artillery of her charms against the invulnerable heart of Mr. Scrimp; but when the governess heard him say he would never marry a widow, else he was very nigh marrying a widow woman as kept a boarding-school once, but he could not abide them there cross school misseses . Indeed, he never meant, he said, again to take that expensive piece of goods , a wife; but dang it, if he ever did, it should be a nice, pretty young girl; for he would neither have a frowsy old maid nor a widow, who would be always talking of her first husband; "besides," added he, "widows are knowing articles; I know better than to let sitch manage me."