Willy Burke, or, The Irish orphan in America - Digital Repository ...

103 WILLY BURKE ; OR,
Malcolm isn 't pleased when any of us is out late. Well,
how did you find Mrs. Watkins ? I suppose she made a
great deal to do about you ".
" You may say that, Willy ", replied his brother, as
they walked on together ; " an', after all, I don *t find any
one like her an' Mr. Watkins. What do you think but
they 've offered me a dollar a week more than I have
here, an' to let me go to night-school into the bargain.
So I promised that I 'd only put in this week here, an'
1 'm to go back to them next Saturday evenin' for good
an' all ".
" And you promised that, Peter ?" cried Willy, in a
trembling voice. " You promised to go back again to
them without consultin' any one, even Father Fitzherbert?"
" An' why not, Willy ?" said the other, quickly.
" Isn't it my own business and not Father Fitzherbert's ?
I suppose a body ought not to cross the threshold, or
buy a cap for his head, without askin' the priest's leave".
u Ah, Peter, Peter", said his brother, reproachfully,
u you know very well there 's a great difference between
troublin' a priest about such triflin' things as them, an'
goin' to ask his advice about changin' your situation.
Besides, you know as well as I do that poor mother on
her death-bed gave us in charge to Father Fitzherbert,
and that it made her die happy when he promised to
watch over us an' guide us. Ay, an' you know, too, that
these very people made you disobey my mother an' grieve
her so much that she never got over it".
Here Peter broke in abruptly, being unable to deny the
truth of what his brother said ; and, resolved at the same
time to have his own way, he would hear no more on the