It was he, I believe, that leaped over the bonfire."
"Was she fond of him?"
"Well, it is not easy to say that; some say she was, and others that
she was not. Barney Casey says she was very glad to escape him when he
became an outlaw."
"By the way, where is Barney? I haven't seen him since I came to look at
this nonsense."
"Just turn your eye to the farthest corner of the room, and you may see
him in his glory."
On looking in the prescribed direction, there, sure enough, was Barney
discovered making love hard and fast to a pretty girl, whom Woodward
remembered to have seen that morning in Mr. Goodwin's, and with whom
he (Barney) had become acquainted when the families were on terms of
intimacy. The girl sat smiling on his knee, whilst Barney who had a
glass of punch in his hand, kept applying it to her lips from time to
time, and pressing her so lovingly toward him, that she was obliged
occasionally to give him a pat upon the cheek, or to pull his whiskers.
Woodward's attention, however, was transferred once more to Grace
Davoren, from whom he could not keep his eyes--a fact which she soon
discovered, as was evident by a slight hauteur and affectation of manner
toward many of those with whom she had been previously on an equal and
familiar footing.
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