Midnight
`` Well , but how will you manage ? for she 's fond of him . '' `` Why , I 'll tell you that . I was over there this evenin ' , and I understand that all the family is goin ' to the Midnight Mass , barrin ' herself . You see , while they are all gone to the ` mallet-office , ' * we 'll slip down wid a thrifle o ' soot on our mugs , and walk down wid her to Kilnaheery , beyant the mountains , to an uncle o ' mine ; an ' affcher that , let any man marry her who chooses to run the risk . Be the contints o ' the book , Atty , if you do n't dhrink I 'll knock your head agin the wall , you gommoch ! '' * Mass , humorously so called , from the fact of those who attend it beating their breasts during their devotions .