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The old salt seemed to have a `` skute '' into the bad business which had brought out the Bishop and the lawyer at that late hour , and on parting from me at the gate of Sunny Lodge he said : `` Lord-a-massy me , what for has n't ould Tom Dug a fortune coming to him ? '' And when I asked him what he would do with a fortune if he had one he answered : `` Do ? Have a tunderin ' -LSB- thundering -RSB- good law-shoot and sattle some o ' them big fellas . '' Going to bed in the `` Plough '' that night , I had an ugly vision of the scene being enacted in the cottage on the curragh -LRB- a scene not without precedent in the history of the world , though the priesthood as a whole is so pure and noble -RRB- -- the midnight marriage of a man dying in unnatural hatred of his own daughter -LRB- and she the sweetest woman in the world -RRB- while the priest and the prostitute divided the spoils . -LSB- END OF MARTIN CONRAD 'S MEMORANDUM -RSB- JULY 25 . The old doctor brought me such sad and startling news to-day .