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What was it, dear?" "Indeed, I can scarcely tell you sich groans, an' wild shoutins, an' shrieks, man's ears never hard in this world, I think; there I hard them as I was comin' past the trees, an' afther I passed them; an' when I left them far behind me, I could hear, every now and then, a wild shriek that made my blood run cowld.
Oh, for her sake, and for God's sake, then, don't take it so much to heart. It was my grandfather sent me to you, an' he says he want's to see you, an' to spake to you." "Oh!" he exclaimed, "My poor father, an' he won't be long afther her. But this is the way wid all, Bryan the way o' the world itself. We must go. I didn't care, now, how soon I followed her. Oh, no, no."
Afther seein' Denis here, what we all hope him to be, the next thing I wish is, that I may never live to see my husband taken away from me, acushla; no, I hope God will take me to himself before that comes."
McNally resignedly. "Ye have the best right, afther all. It concerns you more nor me." Juliana smoothed out the paper, and began to read in a high-pitched monotonous voice, and without any regard to punctuation, of which, indeed, in all probability, the letter was devoid. "'Dear Mrs.
A young woman had died; a young woman who had been privileged to marry a relative, of a degree of relationship obscure, but still honoured, of Mikey Twomey's; "and she afther having a young son, and the boy that marrit her as proud! and a very good baby, and what misfortune came to her no one'd know, only the Lord God Almighty, but she died on them.
The men were much amused at first at the idea of "goin' to school," and some of them looked rather shy at it; but O'Riley, after some consideration, came boldly forward and said, "Well, boys, bad luck to me if I don't think I'll be a scholard afther all.
The pedlar looked at the speakers with a face of much curiosity and interest, then mused for a time, and at length took a turn or two about the floor, after which he sat down and began to drum his fingers on the little table which had been placed for breakfast. "Afther I get my breakfast," he said at length, "I'll thank you to let me know what I have to pay.
Sure, there wor Tom's faither a-sottin' in the garden in his owld armchair under the mulberry-tree, faith, afther Miss Jenny resayved us at the door " "Ah," interposed Larrikins at this point, with a knowing wink. "But, what o' Tom's sister? Yer ain't told us about her at all, chummy. Did she give ye a kiss, now?"
"Say your own part av ut, then, Terence, darlin'," sez she; "for begad I'm thinkin' I've said too much or too little for an honest girl," an' wid that she put her arms round my neck an' kissed me. "There's no more to be said afther that," sez I, kissin' her back again Oh the mane scutt that I was, my head ringin' wid Dinah Shadd!
Well, whin it got so hot it made me scalp sweat, Oi took it off; an' then they called me 'My lord' an' 'your worship, jest loike Oi were a king. "'Pray God, says Oi, 'that me head dinna get bald. "Well, sor, Oi had a toime that was fit for th' Irish. Oi did iverything 'cept git drunk; there was nothin' to git drunk with. But afther a while I ran across anither, wit' jest as red hair as I had.
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