"I wish ye could, father. Indade I do. Ye'd be such good friends."
"WE'D be friends? Didn't ye say he was a GINTLEMAN?"
"He sez a GENTLEMAN is a man who wouldn't willingly hurt anybody else. And he sez, as well, that it doesn't matther what anybody was born, if they have that quality in them they're just as much gintleman as the people with ancestors an' breedin'. An' he said that the finest gintleman he ever met was a CABMAN."
"A cabman, Peg?"
"Yes, faith—that's what he said. The cabman couldn't hurt anybody, and so he was a gintlemaa."
"Did he mane it?"
"He meant everything he said—to ME."
"There isn't much the matther with him, I'm thinkin'."
"There's nothin' the matther with him, father."
"Mebbe he is Irish way back. It's just what an Irishman would say—a RALE Irishman."