Valentine M'Clutchy The Irish Agent Author:William Carleton Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: " Well, then, for this one time, in regard of a Ihin-roe or the red wather in my stomach, I'll try it. I drank bog-bine last night goin' to bed, but divil a mors... more »el o' good it did me." M'Clutchy handed him a full glass, which he held steadily before his eye, till the other put up the decanter. " Your honour's health, sir," said he, " and fireside; and if you war to throw me out o' fifty windies, I'll add to that—here's wishin' that the devil had his own, and I know where you'd soon be." " How, you villanous scoundrel," said Val, starting with rising wrath, " what do you mean by that ?" Darby made no reply, but hastily tossing off the glass, he seized his hat, bolted outside the door, and putting in his head, said in a kind of loud but confidential whisper— "In Hickman's Place, your honour!" CHAPTER III. SOLOMON M'SLIME, A RELIGIOUS ATTORNEY—HIS OFFICE FAMILY DEVOTIONS BLESSED SUBSTITUTE FOR BREAKFAST MISFRISION OF BLASPHEMY LETTER ON BUSINESS. Pass we now to another worthy character, who had locality upon the aforesaid property of Castle Cumber. Solomon M'Slime, the law agent, was a satisfactory proof of the ease with which religion and law may meet and aid each other in the heart and spirit of the same person. An attorney, no doubt, is at all times an amiable, honest, and feeling individual, simply upon professional principles; but when to all this is added the benignant influence of serious and decided piety, it would not be an easy task to find, among the several classes which compose society in general, anything so truly engaging, so morally taintless, so sweetly sanctimonious, so seductively comely, as is that pure and evangelical exhibition of human character, that is found to be developed in a religious attorney. Solomon M'Slime was a man in ...« less