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"'Well, well, aroon, says Larry, 'say no more; you might have been all that, only it was my fault: but where's Dick, that I struck so terribly last night? Dick, come over to me, agra come over, Dick, and sit down here beside me. Arrah, here, Art, ma bouchal, will you fill this egg-shell for him? Poor gorsoon!
How-an'-ever, as he's to come, I'll get a set of gospels for the boys an' girls, an' he can consecrate all when his hand's in. Aroon, Bartley, they say that man's so holy that he can do anything ay, melt a body off the face o' the earth, like snow off a ditch. Dear me, but the power they have is strange all out!"
"Sleepin'! Oh, no," replied Jemmy; "I'd give the wide world for one wink of asy sleep." "Well, aroon, here's fifteen pince for you, that we skham Will I tell him how we cot it?" "No, don't," replied his neighbors; "the boy's given to devotion, and maybe might scruple to take it." "Here's fifteen pince, avourneen, on the shovel, that we're givin' you for God's sake.
We had a number of harmonized choruses, including several of Moore's melodies, Banim's "Soggarth Aroon," "Native Music," by Lover; McCann's "O'Donnell Aboo!" and others. "Killarney," words by Falconer, music by Balfe, was sung by James McArdle, who had a fine tenor voice. Richard Campbell was our principal humorous singer.
"Now, Dennis, you promised me to go straight to bed. Turn in we must, for I have to be on an early parade." "All right, Willie. Good-night, and a thousand thanks to you. It's been a great evening I never was so happy in my life. Come along, Jack." And off he went, tossing his head and singing to the air he had been whistling, "Who in the song so sweet? Eileen aroon! Who in the dance so fleet?
Timothy stopped his hysterical litany and ran toward her. "Don't you come a-near me, bad Piper Tim!" she sobbed. "You don't dare step on the magic circle anyhow. It 'ud burn your wicked foot!" The big farm laborer drew back in a terror he instantly disguised. "I was just lookin' for you, Moira aroon," he said propitiatingly. "I was wishin' to tell you to tell you why, that it's all pretend.
"Bessie Challoner! what a pretty name! Challoner! I like that!" answered Kitty, looking thoughtful. "And where's her house, aroon? What part of the neighborhood is it situated in?" "Come here to the window and I'll show you. When you leave this house you turn to the right and walk straight on until you come to Cherry Lodge that's the name of the house. Bessie and I will be waiting for you."
"Hark! listen! hush!" and Una, with her delighted gaze fixed, as if she saw far away beyond the castle wall, the trees, the glen, and the night's dark curtain, held her hand raised near her ear, and waved her head slightly in time, as it seemed, to music that reached not Alice's ear, and smiled her strange pleased smile, and then the smile slowly faded away, leaving that sly suspicious light behind it which somehow scared her sister with an uncertain sense of danger; and she sang in tones so sweet and low that it seemed but a reverie of a song, recalling, as Alice fancied, the strain to which she had just listened in that strange ecstasy, the plaintive and beautiful Irish ballad, "Shule, shule, shule, aroon," the midnight summons of the outlawed Irish soldier to his darling to follow him.
It does not appear to the individual himself whose resemblance it assumes, but to some of his friends. If it is seen in the morning, it betokens long life; if after sunset, approaching death; after nightfall, immediate death. "'Hut, Tom aroon! says Nelly, 'it was the shadow of the jamb or yourself you saw in the light of the candle, or the shadow of the bed-post.
Misther Denis, aroon, won't you be thinkin' of me now an' thin in the College? Faix, if you always argue as bravely wid the Collegians as you did the day you proved me to be an ass you'll soon be at the head of them!" "Denis," said the uncle, "your father excuses me in regard of havin' to attend my cattle in the fair to-day.
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