She was a thief and a liar, yet she liked and respected Bryan M'Mahon for his truth and honesty.

Her heart, however, was not all depraved; and, indeed, it is difficult to meet a woman in whose disposition, however corrupted by evil society, and degraded by vice, there is not to be found a portion of the angelic essence still remaining.

In the case before us, however, this may be easily accounted for.

Kate Hogan, though a hell-cat and devil, when provoked, was, amidst all her hardened violence and general disregard of truth and honesty, a virtuous woman and a faithful wife.
Hence her natural regard for much that was good and pure, and her strong sympathy with the sorrow which now fell upon Kathleen Cavanagh.
Kathleen and her sister had been sitting sewing at the parlor window, on the day Bryan had the interview we have detailed with Chevydale and the agent, when they heard their father's voice inquiring for Hanna.
"He has been at Jemmy Burke's, Kathleen," said her sister, "and I'll wager a nosegay, if one could get one, that he has news of this new sweetheart of yours; he's bent, Kathleen," she added, "to have you in Jemmy Burke's family, cost what it may." "So it seems, Hanna." "They say Edward Burke is still a finer-looking young fellow than Hycy.
Now, Kathleen," she added, laughing, "if you should spoil a priest afther all! Well! un-likelier things have happened." "That may be," replied Kathleen, "but this won't happen for all that, Hanna.

Go, there he's calling for you again." "Yes--yes," she shouted; "throth, among you all, Kathleen, you're making a regular go-between of me.