A Comedy of Youth - Classic Reprint Author:J. Hartley Manners Excerpt from A Comedy of Youth — "Faith, there's no man says more and knows less than yerself, I'm thinkin'." — "About Ireland, yer riverence?" — "And everything else, Mr. O'Connell." — "Is that criticism or just temper, Father?" — "It's both, Mr. O'Connell." — "Sure it's the good judge ye must be of ignorance, Father Cahill." — "And what might that ma... more »ne?"
"Ye live so much with it, Father."
"I'm lookin' at it and listenin' to it now, Frank O'Connell."
"Then it's a miracle has happened, Father."
"A miracle?"
"To see and hear one's self at the same time is indade a miracle, yer riverence."
Father Cahill tightened his grasp on his blackthorn stick, and shaking it in the other's face, said:
"Don't provoke the Man of God!"
"Not for the wurrld," replied the other meekly, "bein' mesef a Child of Satan."
"And that's what ye are. And ye'd have others like yerself. But ye won't while I've a tongue in me head and a sthrong stick in me hand."
O'Connell looked at him with a mischievous twinkle in his blue-grey eyes:
"Yer eloquence seems to nade somethin' to back it up, I'm thinkin'."
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