old cock � and now i have spirits to take a glass of brandy which i t this whole morning the irish agent said the father how do you i n ever get you appointed to the if you to drink v drink why blood my old boy is it this to ne i do yon mean to tell me that there are no on the bench drink why man let me drink swear and play the devil among the ladies surely you know that my thorough and loyalty will make up for and redeem all hey then for the glass of brandy in which drink your health and hang me til not abuse you again � unless when you deserve it ha ha ha at all events said keep yourself steady for this day this is the day on which i will my long cherished vengeance against m � against him and his i shall leave them this night without a roof over their heads as i said i would and when you are in possession of his property and and he and his will then what i meant when i told with a heart in castle fair that his farm and mine lay together but what will you do with the sick woman i mean his wife asked putting a glass of brandy to his lips and at his father what will you do with the sick woman i say m s face became so ghastly and presented so startling a contrast between his complexion and black brows that even himself got for a moment alarmed and said � my god father what is the matter literally gasped as if seeking for breath th m putting his hand upon his heart he said i am sick here � i see you are said but what is the matter i say again why are you sick vengeance i am sick with the moment is now near and at last i have it within my clutch and here he extended his hand and made a clutch at some imaginary object in the air upon my honour said i envy yon you are a fine consistent old villain the sick woman by the great heavens and by all that they contain � if they do contain anything � i swear that if every individual of than men and women were at the last gasp and within one single moment of death � ha hold said he checking himself that would never do death why death would end all their sufferings oh not all i hope said again no matter resumed their sufferings in the irish agent life it would end and so i should no longer be either eye witness or ear witness of their md miseries i would see them without house r home � without a friend on earth � without without food � ragged starved � starved out of very virtues � despised upon and trampled on by all to these i thought to have added shame � shame but we failed � we have failed no i give you my word we did not � we did sir said the father and she are now reconciled and this is enough for the people who loved her yes by heavens we have filled sat or almost dropped on a chair as he spoke for he had been pacing through the parlour now and putting his two hands over his face ie sobbed out � groaned even with agony � until the tears in torrents through his fingers i thought to have added shame to all i shall make them suffer he exclaimed but in that i am he here actually clenched his hands and his teeth like a man in the last stage of gladness on removing his hands too his face now terribly distorted out of its by the workings of this tremendous passion presented an appearance which one rather suppose to ia ne m been shaped in hell so savage and were all its outlines who had sat at the same time with his face to the back of tne chair on which his two hands were placed supporting his chin kept his beautiful eyes seated � he was in that attitude fixed upon hb father with a good deal of surprise indeed it would be a difficult thing considering their character and situation to find two countenances more beautifully expressive of their respective dispositions if one could conceive the existence of any such thing as a moral looking glass placed between them it might naturally be supposed that in looking at saw himself and that in his virtuous father s face also saw his the son s face and character however had considerably the advantage over his father s s presented merely what you felt you must hate even to but the son s that which you felt to be besides and yet more detestable still well said all i can say is that upon my honour my worthy father i don t think you shine at the pathetic damn it be a man and don t in that manner just like a furious drunken woman when she can t get at another woman who is her enemy surely if we failed it wasn t our faults t i can console you so the irish agent far as to say we did not fail it s not such an easy thing to suppress scandal especially if it happens to be a lie as it is in the present case ah said the father with bitterness it was all your fault you ill looking at your age your grandfather would not have had to complain of want of success come m � i ll not bear this � it s cursed in you when you know devilish well how successful i have been on the property ay said and what was the cause of that was 