"Well," said Mr. Allewinde to the witness, "tell the jury at once what was the thing that had been talked over."
"Why, yer honour knows well enough. Shure weren't you saying it yourself, only the gentleman here wouldn't let you."
"Well, now do you say it."
"Say what?"
"Say what was the thing that had been talked over."
"Talked over when, yer honour?"
"You told the jury some time since that the prisoner owned to you in the avenue that he had killed Captain Ussher, did you not?"
"Faix, I did—and it was thrue for me—he made no bones about it at all."
"And you then added that the thing had been talked over; what thing was it that had been talked over?"
"Ah, that's what you're wanting, is it? 'Deed thin I'm axing yer pardon for keeping yer honours all this time in suspinse. Faix thin, Captain Ussher war the thing what war talked over; and divil a lie in it, for he war talked over ofthen enough."