She looked around her, as if enquiring from all those who were present the nature of the falsehood attributed to her; and then with a calm but firm eye, she asked Sarah what she could mean by such language.
"You're afther sayin'," replied Sarah, "that you're come here to nurse Nancy there.

Now that's not true, and you know it isn't.

You come here to nurse young Con Dalton: and you came to nurse him, bekaise you love him.

No, I don't blame you for that, but I do for not saying so, without fear or disguise--for I hate both." "That wouldn't be altogether true either," replied Mave, "if I said so; for I did come to nurse Nancy, and any others of the family that might stand in need of it.

As to Con, I'm neither ashamed to love him, nor afeard to acknowledge it; and I had no notion of statin' a falsehood when I said what I did.