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162 at his doing it. I'd rather throw it into the fire than give it to him, after his doing his little bit of deceit so shrewdly. Small as the knife was, perhaps, if he had succeeded, the suspicion of it might have fallen on some one else, and then see what a nice piece of work he would have done.

"What a long time you have been about coming!" said Dermot. "It's the match from November till May you have made of it. Half the country would have been married while you have been at it. Where is she now? She was there just a moment ago. 'A wife is better than a fortune.' A quiet, sensible girl, if you don't make her angry. Oh! fie! don't strike! confound you, don't strike! Look at that!"

"Is there any money in the house?" said Shiana to the nurse.

"Not a brown halfpenny," said she.

"Here," said he, "I got some leather from him a few days ago. It is as well for me to pay for it now," and he handed her some money.