He now perceived that he was eccentric and capricious, and that, in order to lure any information out of him, it would be necessary to watch and take advantage of the disagreeable whimsicalities which marked his character.

Patience, he saw clearly, was his only remedy.
After remaining in the back parlor for about eight or ten minutes, he put out his thin, sharp face, with a grin upon it, which was intended for a smile--the expression of which, however, was exceedingly disagreeable.
"We will talk this matter over," he said, "by and by.

I have compared the hand-write in this letther wid a certificate of Father M'Mahon's, that I have for many years in my possession.

Step inside in the meantime; the ould woman will be back in a few minutes, and when she comes we'll go upstairs and speak about it." The stranger complied with this invitation, and felt highly gratified that matters seemed about to take a more favorable turn.
"I trust," said he, "you are satisfied that I am fully entitled to any confidence you may feel disposed to place in me ?" "The priest speaks well of you," replied Dunphy; "but then, sure I know him; he's so kind-hearted a creature, that any one who speaks him fair, or that he happens to take a fancy to, will be sure to get his good word.

It isn't much assistance I can give you, and it's not on account of his letther altogether that I do it; but bekaise I think the time's come, or rather soon will be come.