I'm awake, and quite fresh again.

Is it late ?' 'It's not far from one o'clock,' said he, half-roughly, to hide his emotion; for her worn and wearied features struck him now more forcibly than when she slept.
'And are you only returned now?
How hungry you must be.

Poor fellow--have you dined to-day ?' 'Yes; I got to Owen Molloy's as they were straining the potatoes, and sat down with them, and ate very heartily too.' 'Weren't they proud of it?
Won't they tell how the young lord shared their meal with them ?' 'I don't think they are as cordial as they used to be, Kate; they did not talk so openly, nor seem at their ease, as I once knew them.

And they did one thing, significant enough in its way, that I did not like.

They quoted the county newspaper twice or thrice when we talked of the land.' 'I am aware of that, Dick; they have got other counsellors than their landlords now,' said she mournfully, 'and it is our own fault if they have.' 'What, are you turning Nationalist, Kitty ?' said he, laughing.
'I was always a Nationalist in one sense,' said she, 'and mean to continue so; but let us not get upon this theme.