“And knowing and confessing all this, you have the cheek to come and ask me for a blessing?”
“We have, your reverence.”
“Well, how shall I give the blessing?”
“Och, sure your reverence knows very well how to give it.”
“Shall I give it in Irish?”
“Och, no, your reverence—a blessing in Irish is no blessing at all.”
“In English?”
“Och, murder, no, your reverence, God preserve us all from an English blessing.”
“In Latin?”
“Yes, sure, your reverence; in what else should you bless us but in holy Latin?”