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"Well, sure you have your own way," replied his wife, "but you wor ever
and always self-willed and headstrong. However, it's all the mane blood
that's in you; it breaks your heart to see your son a gintleman; but in
spite of your strong brogues and felt caubeen, a gentleman he is, and
a gentleman he will be, an' that's all I have to say about it. You'll
tache your pet to hate his brother, I'll go bail."
"No, indeed, Rosha," he replied, "I know my duty to God and my childre'
betther than to turn them against one another; but it's only a proof of
how little you know about Edward and his warm and lovin' heart, when you
spake as you do."
This indeed was true. Edward Burke was but a short time at home when he
saw clearly how matters stood in the family. He was in fact a youth of a
most affectionate and generous disposition, and instead of attempting to
make the breach wider, as Hycy had he been in his place would have done,
he did everything in his power to put the parties into a good state
of feeling with each other, and to preserve peace and harmony in the
family.
One morning, a few days after Hycy's rejection by Miss Clinton, they
were all at breakfast, "the accomplished" being in one of his musical
and polite moods, his father bland but sarcastic, and Edward in a state
of actual pain on witnessing the wilful disrespect or rather contempt
that was implied by Hycy towards his parents.
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