"And yourself, Thady, where would you go, till you got Ballycloran again?"
"Got Ballycloran again! why Larry, you're to sell it outright; clane away altogether. As for me, I must get a bit of land, I suppose, or 'list, or do something; go to America, perhaps."
"And was it Keegan wanted to buy Ballycloran?"
"Oh, it's between them, I suppose; but what does it matter—Keegan or Flannelly?"
"And what did you say, Thady?"
"What did I say! Oh, I could say nothing, you know; it's for you to do it. But, Larry, I think it's the best for you, and you may be sure I'll not be complaining afther; or saying ill of you for what you did, when you could do no other."
"And you didn't tell the blackguard ruffian robber to be gone out of that, when he asked you to dhrive your own family out of your own house?"
"Whist, father, whist!"
When Keegan heard old Macdermot break out in this way, he was obliged to turn round: so he walked up to the fire, and said, "Mr. Macdermot, may I ask who you are speaking of?"
Larry was again commencing, when Thady held him down gently, and said,