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Molloy swallowed a hasty meal, and followed his Pupil out, to ascertain if he had really escaped from those ruthless Republicans, who showed so little respect to Chemists and comparative Anatomy.

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TIME flew rapidly-nothing of consequence occurred at Castle Carra-the days 'passed in receiving the visits and congratulations of the neighbouring gentry, and to the surprise of the O'Haras, and joy of Lady Sarah, many families whom political opinions had prevented for a long time from calling at the Castle, seized on the return of the heir as a proper opportunity of leaving their names, and thus renewing a former intimacy. In revisiting his ancient haunts, Emily generally accompanied young O'Hara; and the constant business which engrossed the Major's time, and Lady Sarah's indolence, left them, of necessity, much toge

ther. An invitation to a party at Mrs. Glossins, reminded Henry that he had not returned the visits of his friends, and he mounted his horse and set out to make a round of the neighbouring mansions.

The first visit of the morning, was to his next neighbour, the Justice. Mr. Scanlan had been for many years the proprietor of a country shop, in which he had carried on trade to some advantage, when the death of a maiden aunt. induced him to leave off business, and retire to a profitable farm, which had been the property of the departed virgin. Fortune took one pair of scales out of his hands only to replace them with another; for at the next contested election the Government candidate, in consideration of the use, pro tempore, of certain fortyshilling freeholders, procured him the commission of the peace, and conceded the balance of justice to his custody. In the country for many miles round, there were few less exceptionable Magistrates-he jobbed, and so did they all; and then he was an empty, but a good-natured, fool. The Quarter Sessions heard his harangues, but never blushed for his persecutions. In his

office he talked plaintiff and traverser tired of law; and as he always, instead of encouraging them to hostilities, endeavoured to persuade them to peace, the going Judges had seldom any of his handy-work to distract them at the Assizes. He himself was the only sufferer, for he was laughed at by the aristocracy, and humbugged by the mob.

Through a long winding lane, darkened by high quickset hedges, Henry approached the mansion. It was an old-fashioned building, in which taste and cleanliness never seemed to have been on terms of intimacy. On arriving by a circuit through piggeries and cow-sheds, and turf-stacks at the grand entrance, his loud knock brought a wild-looking, staring lad to the door, and the following colloquy ensued:

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Pray is your master at home?”

"He is, or he's all as one

"You're a liar," roared an old woman, starting out from the kitchen; "and

ye know ye are, Paddy Pheahen." The accused turned wrathfully round.

"I tell you, Molly Corr, that his Worship is at home, af ye'd but tell God's truth."

"But he's not, ye whalp, ye," returned Molly Corr.

"Bad luck to the liars!" ejaculated Master Pheahen.

"Isn't that the taxman, ye baste, ye?" cried the old lady, in no suppressed whisper, as she bolted forward.

"No, it's not, ye ould Ommadawn*!" shouted the boy. "Don't I know him well, a wee, hardfeatured man, on a sorrel mare."

Henry hearing himself taken for one of not the most popular professions in Ireland, announced his name. The old woman curtsied to the ground, while the footman jumped out of the door.

"His worship's, please your honour, in the mud, (turf-bog). Run, Paddy Pheahen, the devil's luck to ye, and tell him who's come to see him." Molly then hooked O'Hara's horse at the door, and ushered him into the mansion.

During the absence of the proprietor, Henry amused himself by examining the apartment. It was evidently the chamber of audience into which he had been conducted. The Justice's

* Ommadawn or Omadaun, in Irish, means a fool.

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