… Yes? What is it?
―There’s a gentleman here, sir, the attendant said, coming forward and offering a card. From the Freeman . He wants to see the files of the Kilkenny People for last year.
―Certainly, certainly, certainly. Is the gentleman? …
He took the eager card, glanced, not saw, laid down, unglanced, looked, asked, creaked, asked:
―Is he? … O, there!
Brisk in a galliard he was off and out.
In the daylit corridor he talked with voluble pains of zeal, in duty bound, most fair, most kind, most honest broadbrim.
―This gentleman? Freeman’s Journal ? Kilkenny People ? To be sure. Good day, sir. Kilkenny … We