7/35 Was Mr.Somers there ?" "We did not see him; but he had been there," said Aunt Letty. And who do you think came up to us in the most courteous, affable, condescending way ?" "Who? Brady, the builder, I suppose." "No, indeed: Brady was not half so civil, for he kept himself to his own work. It was the Rev.Mr.M'Carthy, if you please." "I only hope you were civil to him," said Herbert, with some slight suffusion of colour over his face; for he rather doubted the conduct of his aunt to the priest, especially as her great Protestant ally, Mrs.Townsend, was of the party. |