When I got up from under the table all the ladies were gone; and I had
the satisfaction of seeing the Captain's nose was bleeding, as mine
was--HIS was cut across the bridge, and his beauty spoiled for ever.
Ulick shook himself, sat down quietly, filled a bumper, and pushed the
bottle to me. 'There, you young donkey,' said he, 'sup that; and let's
hear no more of your braying.'

'In Heaven's name, what does all the row mean?' says my uncle. 'Is the
boy in the fever again?'

'It's all your fault,' said Mick sulkily: 'yours and those who brought
him here.'

'Hold your noise, Mick!' says Ulick, turning on him; 'speak civil of my
father and me, and don't let me be called upon to teach you manners.'

'It IS your fault,' repeated Mick. 'What business has the vagabond here?
If I had my will, I'd have him flogged and turned out.'

'And so he should be,' said Captain Quin.

'You'd best not try it, Quin,' said Ulick, who was always my champion;
and turning to his father, 'The fact is, sir, that the young monkey has
fallen in love with Nora, and finding her and the Captain mighty sweet
in the garden to-day, he was for murdering Jack Quin.'

'Gad, he's beginning young,' said my uncle, quite good-humouredly.
''Faith, Fagan, that boy's a Brady, every inch of him.'

'And I'll tell you what, Mr. B.,' cried Quin, bristling up: 'I've been
insulted grossly in this 'OUSE. I ain't at all satisfied with these here
ways of going on. I'm an Englishman I am, and a man of property; and
I--I'--'If you're insulted, and not satisfied, remember there's two of
us, Quin,' said Ulick gruffly. On which the Captain fell to washing his
nose in water, and answered never a word.

'Mr. Quin,' said I, in the most dignified tone I could assume, 'may
also have satisfaction any time he pleases, by calling on Redmond Barry,
Esquire, of Barryville.' At which speech my uncle burst out a-laughing
(as he did at everything); and in this laugh, Captain Fagan, much to my
mortification, joined. I turned rather smartly upon him, however, and
bade him to understand that as for my cousin Ulick, who had been my best
friend through life, I could put up with rough treatment from him; yet,
though I was a boy, even that sort of treatment I would bear from him
no longer; and any other person who ventured on the like would find me a
man, to their cost. 'Mr. Quin,' I added, 'knows that fact very well; and
if HE'S a man, he'll know where to find me.'

My uncle now obs