I know there's great luck an' high fortune before you; for, indeed, your beauty an' goodness well desarves it, an' they'll get both." They then returned into the house; Mave somewhat surprised, but no way relieved, while the Prophet seemed rather in better spirits by the interview.
"Now, Jerry Sullivan," said he, "an' you, Bridget his wife, lend your ears an' listen.

The heart of Prophet is full of good to you and yours, and the good must come to his lips, and flow from them when it comes.
There are three books known to the wise: the Book of Marriage, the Book of Death, and the Book of Judgment.

Open a leaf, says the Angel of Marriage--the Garden Angel of Jericho--where he brings all love, happiness and peace to; open a' leaf, says the Angel of Marriage--him that has one head and ten horns--and read us a page of futurity from the prophecy of St.Nebbychodanazor, the divine.

The child is a faymale child, says the angel with one head and ten horns--by name Mabel Sullivan, daughter to honest Jerry Sullivan and his daicent wife Bridget, of Aughnamurrin.

Amin, says the Prophet.