Again, sir, if you are a Protestant, and have thoroughly cast Popery from your heart, you must necessarily be a loyal man and a good subject; but if you refuse to prosecute him, you can be neither the one nor the other, but a Papist and an impostor, and I've done with you.

If Mr.M'Clutchy knew, sir, that you refused to prosecute a priest for such a violent outrage upon your person, I imagine you would not long hold the situation of bailiff under him." Darby looked into the floor like a philosopher solving a problem.
"I see, sir," said he, "I see--well--you have made that clear enough sartinly; but you know, sir, how could you expect such deep raisoning upon these subjects from a man like me.

I see the duty of it now clearly; but, when, sir, on the other hand if I prosecute him, what's to become of me?
Will you, sir, bear my funeral expenses ?" "Every penny, O'Drive," replied the other, eagerly.

"Tut," he exclaimed, checking himself, "I--I--I thought you meant the expenses of the prosecution." "It's much the same, sir," replied Darby, "the one will be sure to follow the other.

You know the state the country's in now, sir, and how the people on both sides are ready to skiver one another about this religion, and rents and tithes, and dear knows what besides.