d with herself;
but her uncle, by the father's side, Mick Macnamara of Kawleash, had an
estate of at least five hundred a-year, which, in case of his dying
without issue, was to come to her--besides a power of money saved; Mick
being one who, to use the elegant phraseology of my friend the attorney,
would skin a flea for the sake of selling the hide. All this money, ten
thousand pounds, or something equally musical, would in all probability
go to Miss Dosy--the L500 a-year was hers by entail. Now, as her uncle
was eighty-four years old, unmarried, and in the last stage of the
palsy, it was a thing as sure as the bank, that Miss Dosy was a very
rich heiress indeed.

"'So--so,' said Six-and-Eightpence--'this--this--is strictly
confiddle-confid-confiddledential. Do--do not say a word about
it. I ought not to have to-told it--but, you do-dog, you wheedled
it out of me. Da-dang it, I co-could not ref-refuse your father's
son. You are ve-very like him--as I sa-saw him sitting many a
ti-time in that cha-chair. But you nev-never will have his XXXX
spu-spunk in a sho-shoot (suit). There, the lands of XXXXXXXXXXX
Arry-arry-arry-bally-bally-be-beg-clock-clough-macde-de-duagh--confound
the wo-word--of Arryballybegcloughmacduagh, the finest be-bog in the
co-country--are ye-yours--but you haven't spu-spunk to go into
Cha-chancery for it, like your worthy fa-father, Go-god rest his soul.
Blow out that se-second ca-candle, Bo-bob, for I hate waste.'

"'There's but one in the room, Barney,' said I.

"'You mean to say,' hiccuped he, 'that I am te-te-tipsy? Well, well,
ye-young fe-fellows, well, I am their je-joke. However, as the je-jug is
out, you must be je-jogging. Early to bed, and early to rise, is the way
to be----. However, le-lend me your arm up the sta-stairs, for they are
very slip-slippery to-night.'

"I conducted the attorney to his bedchamber, and safely stowed him into
bed, while he kept stammering forth praises on my worthy father, and
up-braiding me with want of spunk in not carrying on a Chancery suit
begun by him some twelve years before, for a couple of hundred acres of
bog, the value of which would scarcely have amounted to the price of the
parchment expended on it. Having performed this duty, I proceeded
homewards, labouring under a variety of sensations.

"How delicious is the feeling of love, when it first takes full
possession of a youthful bosom! Before its balmy influence vanish all
selfish thoughts--all g