"
"And didn't yourself tell me," she proceeded, "that that same lonesome
boreen is a common walk at night wid Master Harry?"
"And so it is, Nanse," replied Barney: "but as for Misther Harry, I
believe it's party well known, that by night or by day he may walk where
he likes."
"Father of heaven!" they exclaimed in a low, earnest voice; "but why,
Barney?" they asked in a condensed whisper.
"Why! Why is he called _Harry na Suil Balor_ for? Can you tell me that?"
"Why, bekaise his two eyes isn't one color."
"And why aren't they one color? Can you tell me that?"
"O, the sorra step farther I can go in that question."
"No," said Barney, full of importance, "I thought not, and what is more,
I didn't expect it from you. His mother could tell, though. It's in her
family, and there's worse than that in her family."
"Troth, by all accounts," observed the girl, "there never was anything
good in her family. But, Barney, achora, will you tell us, if you know,
what's the rason of it?"
"If I know?" said Barney, rather offended; "maybe I don't know, and
maybe I do, if it came to that.
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