"Ulick is very clever!"
"He's very fond of Garradrimna, and I think he's very fond of the girls."
"It's so dull around here compared with Dublin."
John appeared a fool by the side of this man of the world, who was searching him with a look as he spoke again:
"It's all right for a young fellow to gain his experience as early as he can, but he's a bit too fond of his pleasure. He's going a bit too far."
John put on a strained look of advocacy, but he spoke no word.
"He's not a doctor yet, and even then his living would not be assured; and do ye know what he had the cheek to come telling me the other night—
"'I've got infernally fond of that little girl,' he says.
"'What girl?' I asked in amazement.