And Jacob continued, "So said I; 'Boys,' I said, 'now we know where she is, and that by this time she must have married the man she ought, let's do the right by her and sell Ballacraine, and take her the money and give her joy.'"
"So you did, so you did," said John.
"And we sold it dirt cheap, too," said Jacob, "but you're not the loser; no, for here is a full seventh of all Lague straight to your hand."
"Give me the money," said Greeba.
"And there it is, dear," said Jacob, fumbling the notes and the gold to count them, while his brethren, much gratified by this sign of Greeba's complacency, began to stretch their legs from the easy chairs about them.
"[Ay], and a pretty penny it has cost us to fetch it," said John. "We've had to pinch ourselves to do it, I can tell you."
"How much has it cost you?" said Greeba.
"No matter of that," interrupted Jacob, with a lofty sweep of the hand.
"Let me pay you back what you have spent in coming," said Greeba.
"Not a pound of it," said Jacob. "What's a matter of forty or fifty pounds to any of us, compared to doing what's right by our own flesh and blood?"