This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ...of literature, for, be he rampant Tory or subservient Whig, if he sang or wrote of Ireland, her history, her antiquities, her legends, or her lore, he was welcome to that room on the third floor of the parochial house in Lower Exchange Street. But the guest should take the sting with the honey. Meehan contrived to make ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ...of literature, for, be he rampant Tory or subservient Whig, if he sang or wrote of Ireland, her history, her antiquities, her legends, or her lore, he was welcome to that room on the third floor of the parochial house in Lower Exchange Street. But the guest should take the sting with the honey. Meehan contrived to make the dialogue lively enough, if not always flattering. 'He who flatters degrades himself, ' he writes, 'and whoever, says Massillon, burns such incense before his master means to betray him.' Against a silent dinner he was war to the knife. 'I hope, ' he said, when asked to dine--'I hope your dinner won't be like one of these funeral breakfasts, where people eat in silence and look solemn as tombstones.' 'I'll undertake that.' 'An ugly word that, undertake, ' he mused; 'get some other.' One day a lion of a dinner-party arrived rather late, and was upbraided by Meehan for coming in while the soup was being served. 'I believe, ' he said, 'you would be late for the Day of Judgment.' The answer promptly came: 'It would be well for you if late on that day.' Whatever he thought he said. The name of an eminent doctor, since dead, was mentioned. Meehan's estimate of him was, 'I think him a successful humbug.' When going through St. Vincent's Hospital with Father Healy, he recognized a nun whom in earlier days he had known in the world. 'What nickname have they put on you V he asked, meaning what was her name in religion, just as a brother humourist asked another sister, 'What is your name in the world? or what in the world is your name?' For the next twenty years Meehan dined every week with Healy. On these occasions he slept at the house of Father Healy's curate, who was fortunate in finding him uniformly amiable. Healy always contrived to have for Meeh
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