“Munno.⁠ ⁠… It’s not exactly a sermon, you know. It’s just kind of a friendly talk, you know, in a commonsense way.”

Mr. Kernan deliberated. Mr. M’Coy said:

“Father Tom Burke, that was the boy!”

“O, Father Tom Burke,” said Mr. Cunningham, “that was a born orator. Did you ever hear him, Tom?”

“Did I ever hear him!” said the invalid, nettled. “Rather! I heard him.⁠ ⁠…”

“And yet they say he wasn’t much of a theologian,” said Mr. Cunningham.