"
"Does it terrify her?"
"Not a bit; she says it does her no harm on earth, and that it's great
company for her when she can't sleep."
"Has Mary many sweethearts?"
"She has two: one o' them rather ould, but wealthy and well to do; her
father and myself, wishin' to see her well settled, are doin' all we can
to get her consent to marry him."
"Who's the other?"
"One Brine Oge M'Gaveran, a good-lookin' vagabone, no doubt, but not
worth a copper."
"Is she fond of him?"
"Troth, to tell you the truth, I'm afeard she is; he has been often seen
about the house in the evenin's."
"Well, Mrs. Houlaghan, I will tell you how to lay this ghost."
"God bless you, sir; poor Mary, although she purtends that the ghost is
good company for her, is lookin' pale and very quare somehow."
"Well, then, here is the receipt for laying the ghost: Marry her as soon
as you possibly can to Brine Oge M'Gaveran--do that and the ghost will
never appear again; but if you refuse to do it--I may lay that ghost of
course--but another ghost, as like it as an egg is to an egg, will
haunt your house until she is married to Brine Oge.
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