too, since they lived there. Why you'd have to pull it all down, before
you began to build it up!"

"May-be I'd build a new house, out and out. Av' I got three new lifes
in the laise, I'd do that; and the lord wouldn't be refusing me, av' I
asked him."

"Bother the lord, Martin; why you'd be asking anything of any lord, and
you with £400 a-year of your own? Give up Toneroe, and go and live at
Dunmore House at once."

"What! along with Barry--when I and Anty's married? The biggest house
in county Galway wouldn't hould the three of us."

"You don't think Barry Lynch'll stay at Dunmore afther you've married
his sisther?"

"And why not?"

"Why not! Don't you know Barry thinks himself one of the raal gentry
now? Any ways, he wishes others to think so. Why, he'd even himself
to Lord Ballindine av' he could! Didn't old Sim send him to the same
English school with the lord on purpose?--tho' little he got by it,
by all accounts! And d'you think he'll remain in Dunmore, to be
brother-in-law to the son of the woman that keeps the little grocer's
shop in the village?--Not he! He'll soon be out of Dunmore when he
hears what his sister's afther doing, and you'll have Dunmore House to
yourselves then, av' you like it."

"I'd sooner live at Toneroe, and that's the truth; and I'd not give