dresses well."

"Well! John;" exclaimed Julia.

"Perhaps I ought not to say--_well_, Julia; but at all events, he is
very fond of being considered a buck, and he certainly dresses up to
that character."

"He admits that he was eight years in England," said his father;
"although, for my part, it's just as likely that he spent seven years
of that time in Botany Bay; if not, I should have no objection that
something should occur to make him spend the remainder of his life
there."

"Why should you wish the man so ill, papa'?" asked Mary.

"Why, Mary--faith for a very good reason, my dear child; because I don't
wish to see your sister annoyed and persecuted by the scoundrel. The
fellow is so impudent that he will take no rebuff."

"By the way, father, where does M'Carthy stop, now that he is in
the country?" asked Alick, with some hesitation, and a brow a little
heightened in color.

"For the present," replied the other, "he stops with our friend,
O'Driscol, the new magistrate. Faith, it's a shove-up for O'Driscol to
get on the Bench. Halloo! there's M'Carthy's knock--I'm sure I know it."

The proctor was right; but notwithstanding his quickness and sagacity,
there was another individual in the room at that moment who recognized