“Yes, sir, here it is,” said he. “‘Deed of conveyance between Godfrey O’Malley, of O’Malley Castle, Esq., on the one part’--perhaps you’d like your solicitor to examine it,--‘and Blake, of Gurt’--because there is no hurry, Captain O’Malley--‘on the other.’ In fact, after all, it is a mere matter of form between relatives,” said he, as I declined the intervention of a lawyer. “I’m not in want of the money--‘all the lands and tenements adjoining, in trust, for the payment of the said three thousand’--thank God, Captain, the sum is a trifle that does not inconvenience me! The boys are provided for; and the girls--the pickpockets, as I call them, ha, ha, ha!--not ill off neither;--‘with rights of turbary on the said premises’--who are most anxious to have the pleasure of seeing you. Indeed, I could scarcely keep Jane from coming over to-day. ‘Sure he’s my cousin,’ says she; ‘and what harm would it be if I went to see him?’ Wild, good-natured girls, Captain! And your old friend Matthew--you haven’t forgot Matthew?--has been keeping three coveys of partridge for you this fortnight. ‘Charley,’ says he,--they call you Charley still, Captain,--‘shall have them, and no one else.’ And poor Mary--she was a child when you were here--Mary is working a sash for you. But I’m forgetting--I know you have so much business on your hands--” “Pray, Mr. Blake, be seated. I know nothing of any more importance than the matter before us. If you will permit me to give you a check for this money. The papers, I’m sure, are perfectly correct.” “If I only thought it did not inconvenience you--” “Nothing of the kind, I assure you. Shall I say at sight, or in ten days hence?” “Whenever you please, Captain. But it’s sorry I am to come troubling you about such things, when I know you are thinking of other matters. And, as I said before, the money does not signify to me; the times, thank God, are good, and I’ve never been very improvident.” “I think you’ll find that correct.” “Oh, to be sure it is! Well, well; I’m going away without saying half what I intended.” “Pray do not hurry yourself. I have not asked have you breakfasted, for I remember Galway habits too well for that. But if I might offer you a glass of sherry and water after your ride?”