To hear her rant, one would have supposed, who had not seen him, that her lank-haired, grimly partner, was the prettiest youth in the county of Dublin, and that all the comely lasses in Chapelizod and the country round were sighing and setting caps at him […]

He was nobody's fool, and there was no doubt but he had very soon detected the trick his cousin had played upon him.

When I had finished I went and saw poor Leo, who was quite off his head, and did not even know me.

He had taken a liking to Osgood Perkins and was fascinated by Perkins's understated but effective style of acting.