Gintlemen, I have the honor of being able to write
'Philomath' after my name--which is O'Finigan, not Finigan, by any
means--and where is the oyster in his shell could do that? Yes, and
although they refused me a sizarship in Trinity College--for what will
not fear and envy do?
"'Tantaene animis celesiibus irae'
Yet I have the consolation to know that my name is seldom mentioned
among the literati of classical Kerry--_nudis cruribus_ as they
are--except as the Great O'Finigan! In the mane time--"
"Bravo, Masther!" exclaimed Keenan, interrupting him. "Here, Ted!
another bottle, till the Great O'Finigan gets a glass of whiskey."
"Yes, gintlemen," proceeded O'Finigan, "the alcohol shall be accepted,
_puris naturalibus_--which means, in its native--or more properly--but
which comes to the same thing--in its naked state; and, in the mane
time, I propose the health of one of my best benefactors--Gerald
Cavanagh, whose hospitable roof is a home--a domicilium to erudition
and respectability, when they happen, as they ought, to be legitimately
concatenated in the same person--as they are in your humble servant; and
I also beg leave to add the pride of the barony, his fair and virtuous
daughter, Kathleen, in conjunction wid the I accomplished son of another
benefactor of mine--honest James Burke--in conjunction, I say, wid his
son, Mr.
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