Fill up my glass whenever it's empty,' said she to the servant, 'and don't bother me with the name of it.

As long as I know the King's County, and that's more than fifty years, we've been calling Cape Madeira, Sherry!' 'If we know what we are drinking, Miss O'Shea, I don't suppose it matters much.' 'Nothing at all, Mathew.

Calling you the Viscount Kilgobbin, as I read a while ago, won't confuse me about an old neighbour.' 'Won't you try a cutlet, godmother ?' asked Kate hurriedly.
'Indeed I will, my dear.

I don't know why I was sending the man away.

I never saw this way of dining before, except at the poorhouse, where each poor creature has his plateful given him, and pockets what he can't eat.' And here she laughed long and heartily at the conceit.
Kearney's good-humour relished the absurdity, and he joined in the laugh, while Nina stared at the old woman as an object of dread and terror.
'And that boy that wouldn't dine with us.