"Sure of his money! why, wouldn't it be settled on him?--wouldn't it be named as one of the conditions of the sale? He'd be a deal surer of that, than he is now of his daily dinner; for that I believe he's not very sure of as things are going at Ballycloran." Thady looked at the attorney as though he longed to answer him in the same strain; but he said nothing of the sort; he remained looking out of the window for a short time, considering what he should do. "Well, Macdermot, I can't be waiting here all day you know; what do you say to it?" "I'll spake to my father; it's he must decide you know, at last, and not me. Larry, you heard what Mr. Keegan said, didn't you?" and he explained to his father the nature of the offer; and tried to make him understand that at any rate Ballycloran must go; and that it would be better to go at once, with some provision to look to, than to stay there, and be driven out, without any; and that Mr. Flannelly would not be content any longer with getting the interest for his money, but that he was determined to get the principal, either by having the property sold, or by taking possession of it himself. It was long before he could make the old man precisely understand what it was that was required of him; during which time Keegan remained at the window, as if he was not hearing a word that passed between the father and son. "And does he want us to go clane out of it, Thady?" "Root and branch, father, for iver and iver; and there'll be the finish of the Macdermots of Ballycloran; but Larry,"--and he put his hand, with more tenderness than seemed to belong to his rough nature, on his father's arm;--"but Larry, you know you'll never want for anything then; you'll be snug enough jist wherever you plaze; and your money coming due and paid every week--you'd be better than in this wretched place; eh Larry?" "And what's to become of Feemy?" "Why, we must get Feemy a husband; till then she'll stay with you; she'll have a thrifle of money herself, you know; she'll be poor enough, though, God knows!--It's the thought of her that throubles me most." "And yourself, Thady, where would you go, till you got Ballycloran again?" "Got Ballycloran again! why Larry, you're to sell it outright; clane away altogether. As for me, I must get a bit of land, I suppose, or 'list, or do something; go to America, perhaps." "And was it Keegan wanted to buy Ballycloran?" "Oh, it's between them, I suppose; but what does it matter--Keegan or Flannelly?" "And what did you say, Thady?" "What did I say! Oh, I could say nothing, you know; it's for you to do it. But, Larry, I think it's the best for you, and you may be sure I'll not be complaining afther; or saying ill of you for what you did, when you could do no other." "And you didn't tell the blackguard ruffian robber to be gone out of that, when he asked you to dhrive your own family out of your own house?" "Whist, father, whist!"