"Good gracious, Nora, are you demented? The man pays his rent, or he
goes. Not another word."

"Father, dear father!"

"Not another word. Go in and see your mother, or she'll be wondering
what has happened to you. Yes, I'll go off to Dublin to-morrow. If
Neil doesn't pay up his rent in a week, off he goes; it's men like
Andrew Neil who are the scum of the earth. He has put my back up;
and pay his rent he will, or out he goes."




CHAPTER IX.


EDUCATION AND OTHER THINGS.

The next day the Squire and Terence went off together. Mrs. O'Shanaghgan
was very angry with her husband for going, as she expressed it, to amuse
himself in Dublin. Dirty Dublin she was fond of calling the capital of
Ireland.

"What do you want to go to Dirty Dublin for?" she said. "You'll spend a
lot of money, and God knows we have little enough at the present moment."

"Oh, no, I won't, Ellen," he replied. "I'll be as careful as careful
can be; the colleen can witness to that. There's a little inn on the
banks of the Liffey where I'll put up; it is called the 'Green Dragon,'