world!"

"Not much unless the last gale [10] to your lordship and we never pay
that till next May."

[FOOTNOTE 10: gale--rent payment. Gale day was the day on which
rent was due.]

"And so you're going to marry Anty Lynch!" again repeated Frank, as
though he couldn't bring himself to realise the idea; "and now, Martin,
tell me all about it,--how the devil you managed it--when it's to come
off--and how you and Barry mean to hit it off together when you're
brothers. I suppose I'll lose a good tenant any way?"

"Not av' I'm a good one, you won't, with my consent, my lord."

"Ah! but it'll be Anty's consent, now, you know. She mayn't like
Toneroe. But tell me all about it. What put it into your head?"

"Why, my lord, you run away so fast; one can't tell you anything. I
didn't say I was going to marry her--at laist, not for certain;--I only
said I might do worse."

"Well then; are you going to marry her, or rather, is she going to
marry you, or is she not?"

"Why, I don't know. I'll tell your lordship just how it is. You know
when old Sim died, my lord?"

"Of course I do. Why, I was at Kelly's Court at the time."