right over your window it ill becomes you mary to speak of after the blow that gave pat with his stick at ned s wedding and i must stand by my son and keep him ont of the low irish and he won t be safe until i get him a good wife the low irish indeed it ill becomes you to be talking in that way of your neighbours is it because none of us hare brass on our doors i have seen this pride growing up in you this long while there isn t one in the village that you ve any respect for except the that black who sits behind his counter and makes money and knows no enjoyment in life at all that s your way of looking at it but it isn t mine i set my face against my son marrying and you should have done the same something will happen to you for the cruel words you have spoken to me this day mary you came to ask me to your son s wedding and i had to tell you yes and you ve told me that you won t come and that you hate the and you ve said all you could against them i t to have listened to all you said if i did tis because we have known each other these twenty years but don t i remember well the rags you d on your back when you came to this village it ill followed her to the gate the sounds of wheels and were heard it was the wedding party going by and on the first car whom should they see but sitting between pat and peter good bye and good luck to you i see that pat s coming to our dance after all and she could not speak for want of breath when she got to her door they were all there pat and the and and peter and all their friends but she couldn t speak and hadn t the strength to find the key for she could only think of the black look that had come over s face when she saw pat sitting by on the car and mrs m laughed as she searched for the thinking how quickly her punishment had come and all the while they were telling her how they had met pat at michael s when he saw us he tried to into the yard but i went after him and don t you think i did right was heard to say and as soon as they were inside she said now i ll get the biggest of porter and shall drink one half and pat the other peter was fond of and there were large and small on the some white and brown and some were gilt with pink flowers now you ll say something nice i ll say then said peter this is the happiest day of my life as it should be indeed for haven t i got the girl that i wanted and hasn t pat forgiven me for the blow i struck him for he knows well i wouldn t hurt a hair of his head weren t we boys together but i had a cross drop in me at the time and that was how it was catching sight of s black hair and rosy cheeks which were all the world to him he stopped speaking and stood looking at her of everything and at that moment he looked so good and foolish that more than one woman thought it would be a weary thing to live with him now pat you must make a speech too said i haven t any speech in me he said i m glad enough to be sitting here but i m sore afraid my mother saw me on the car and i think i had better be going home and letting you finish this marriage what s that you re saying said you won t go out of this house till you ve danced a with me and now sit down at the table next to me and you sit on the other side of him so that he won t run away to his mother her eyes were as bright as coals of fire and she calling to her father who was at the end of the table to have another of pig s head and to the who was having his supper in the window to hare a bit more and then turning to pat who said never a word and laughing at him for having nothing to say it was afterwards they remembered that had seemed to put pat out of her mind suddenly and had stood talking to her husband saying he must dance with her though it was no amusement to a girl to dance opposite peter it was afterwards that mary ned s wife remembered how though she had danced with peter in the first had not been able to keep her eyes from the comer where pat sat and that sudden like she had grown weary of peter mary remembered too she had seen a wild look pass in s eyes and that she had gone over to pat and pulled him out for a dance and why shouldn t she for it was a pleasure for a girl to dance opposite to pat so cleverly did his feet move to the pipes was admiring them when pat cried out i m going home i bid you all good night here finish this wedding as you like and before anyone could stop him he had run out of the house go after him said bring him back it would be ill luck on our wedding night for anyone to leave us like that peter went out of the door and was away some time but he came back without 