'Oi; a morthal large number.'
'I have never seen the house of a rich man. Would you show me through? My eyes are acheen to see the valuable furniture and things.'
'Aisy, till they get asleep, my lammie.' He was so gentle that he suggested a lamb to her Milesian imagination. He therefore told her some new version of the banishment of frogs from the Island of Saints by St. Patrick, and expounded the trinitine mysteries of the three-leaved clover. She was delighted; and I believe that had he 'popped the question,' she would have said 'Yes, me darlint,' straightway.
Presently the two are making a tour of the lower part of the house, and The Lifter expresses his wonder at the luxury by a series of aspirated 'Oh's!'
'This is his library; that place beyant.'
'Let me see it,' quoth the Lifter; and the two went silently in.
'And that little room at the far end; what's that?' said the visitor.'
'Oh, I couldn't show you that at all, at all. It's locked; bekaise he keeps all his money there.'
'Ah; he's a miser,' The Lifter said in a low voice. 'Show me where I am to sleep.'
She would put him in the attic, but he refused. The kitcheen was good enough for him, if she'd just bring him a pillow to put under his head, and a rug to throw over him.