twenty minutes to six
Thady 's only answer to this was , `` How are you , Father Cullen ? '' He wished him back at Maynooth . `` Well , I hope Father McGrath is n't far off thin , '' and he looked at a watch nearly as big as a church clock , `` for I 'm very hungry , and , my ! it 's only twenty minutes to six -- '' This gave Thady the very unwelcome intelligence that Father Cullen meant to dine at the cottage . `` And now the pony 's lamed undher me , I had to walk all the way to Loch Sheen , in the dirt and gutther . '' Thady 's mind was full of one object , and he could not interest himself about the curate 's misfortunes in the lameness of his pony and the dirt of his walk . `` And bad manners to them Commissioners and people they sent over bothering and altering the people !