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The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector - The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton
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"You seem to know them very well."

"I have a good right, sir, seein' that I have been in the family ever
since I was a gorson."

"And is Mrs. Lindsay as popular as her husband?"

"She is his wife, sir--the mother of his children, and my misthress;
afther that you may judge for yourself."

"Of course, then, you are aware that they have a son abroad."

"I am, sir, and a fine young man they say he is. Nothing vexes them so
much as that he won't come to see them. He's never off their tongue; and
if he's aquil to what they say of him, upon my credit the sun needn't
take the trouble of shinin' on him."

"Have they any expectation of a visit from him, do you know'?"

"Not that I hear, sir; but I know that nothing would rise the cockles of
their hearts aquil to seein' him among them. Poor fellow! Mr. Hamilton's
will was a bad business for him, as it was thought he'd have danced into
the property. But then, they say, his other uncle will provide for him,
especially as he took him from the family, by all accounts, on that
condition."

This information--if information it could be called--was nothing more
nor less than wormwood and gall to the gentleman on whose ears and
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