contempt._) But I'll go and resave the major properly.--(_Turns back as she
is going, and says to BIDDY_) Biddy, settle all here, can't ye?--Turn up
the bed, and sweep the glass and dust in the dust corner, for it's here
I'm bringing him to dinner,--so settle up all in a minute, do you mind me,
Biddy! for your life!

[_Exit Miss GALLAGHER._

_BIDDY, alone_--(_speaking while she puts the things in the room in
order._)

_Settle up all in a minute!_--asy said!--and _for my life_ too!--Why, then,
there's not a greater slave than myself in all Connaught, or the three
kingdoms--from the time I get up in the morning, and that's afore the
flight of night, till I get to my bed again at night, and that's never
afore one in the morning! But I wouldn't value all one pin's pint, if it
was kind and civil she was to me. But after I strive, and strive to the
utmost, and beyand--(_sighs deeply_) and when I found the innions, and took
the apple-pie off her hands, and settled her behind, and all to the best of
my poor ability for her, after, to go and call me Sheelah na Ghirah! though
I don't rightly know who that Sheelah na Ghirah was from Adam--but still
it's the bad language I get, goes to my heart. Oh, if it had but plased
Heaven to have cast me my lot in the sarvice of a raal jantleman or lady
instead of the likes of these! Now, I'd rather be a dog in his honour's
or her honour's house than lie under the tongue, of Miss Gallagher, as I
do--to say nothing of ould Christy.

_Miss GALLAGHER'S voice heard, calling,_

Biddy! Biddy Doyle! Biddy, can't ye?