'Girdlestone ?' says he.
'The same,' says I.

'A merchant prince ?' says he.

'The same,' says I.
'I'd be proud to meet him,' says he.

'And you shall,' says I.

He's the best blood of county Waterford." "More blood than money, I suppose," the young man said, smoothing out his crisp black moustache.
"Bedad, you've about hit it there.