At this moment Kathleen and her sister Hanna entered the house, and a
general stir took place among those who were present, which was caused
by her strikingly noble figure and extraordinary beauty--a beauty which,
on the occasion in question, assumed a peculiarly dignified and majestic
character from the deep and earnest sympathy with the surrounding sorrow
that was impressed on it.
Hycy and his companion surveyed her for many minutes; and the former
began to think that after all, if Miss Clinton should fail him, Kathleen
would make an admirable and most lovely wife. Her father soon after she
entered came over, and taking her hand said, "Come with me, Kathleen,
till you shake hands wid a great friend of yours--wid Misther Burke.
This is herself, Misther Burke," he added, significantly, on putting her
hand into that of honest Jemmy, "an' I think no father need be ashamed
of her."
"Nor no father-in-law," replied Jemmy, shaking her cordially by the
hand, "and whisper, darlin'," said he, putting his mouth close to her
ear, and speaking so as that he might not be heard by others, "I hope to
see you my daughter-in-law yet, if I could only get that boy beyant to
make himself worthy of you."
On speaking he turned his eyes on Hycy, who raised himself up, and
assuming his best looks intimated his consciousness of being the object
of his father's allusion to him.
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