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"What news from the big house?" "News, is it? Come, Corney, come, girls, bounce; news is it? O, faitha', thin it's I that has the news that will make you all shake your feet to-night." "Blessed saints, Barney what is it?" "A bonfire, Barney! Arra, why, man alive?" "Why?
No, your honor: I tether the boat at siven o'hlyock, and lave Brimstone Billy God forgimme! to take care of it t'll mornin." "It will be stolen some night, I'm afraid." "Arra, who'd dar come next or near it, let alone stale it? Faith, I'd think twice before lookin at it meself in the dark. God bless your honor, an gran'che long life." I had given him sixpence.
"Murdher alive, mother!" she exclaimed, "what is this? Hallo! a tobaccy-box a fine round tobaccy-box of iron, bedad an what's this on it! let me see; two letthers. Wait till I rub the rust off; or stay, the rust shows them as well. Let me see P. an' what's the other? ay, an' M. P. M. arra, what can that be for? Well, devil may care! let it lie on the shelf there.
"He gave me a look and almost began to cry 'Arra now, your reverence, he replied, 'how could you expict me to have the heart to refuse a few sods to the great number of poor creatures that axed me for them, to boil their pratees, as I came along? I hope, your reverence, I am not so hard-hearted as all that comes to."
He had arra arra known this young man from childhood, and had er um never found him guilty of a mean action or arra discovered in him a thought unworthy of an English gentleman. This last was felt to be a strong point, as it implied that an English gentleman must needs be much better than any other gentleman.
"Arra, get out o' that!" she replied; "didn't I tell you that he didn't show his round rosy face to-day yet; but I'll go bail he'll be here for all that sorra day he missed for the last week, and it's a scandal for you to thrate him as you're doin' sorra thing else." "Stop your goster," said Dunphy, "and come in isn't he inside here?"
"Don't ax your mother anything about it," replied Barney, "bekaise mother, and father, and sister, and brother, daughter and son, is all to come." "Arra, Barney," said Bridget Davoren, for such was her name, "is this gentleman like his ecald of a mother?" "Hasn't a feature of her purty face," he replied, "and, to the back o' that, is very much given to religion.
Poor! ershisin! Arra what was I sayin'? Sure they do it bekaise we all have plenty to ait and dhrink, plenty to wear; good coats to our backs, like this" and here he shook the rags he dangled about him in hundreds; "good breeches to hem no matther good shoes and stockings to our feet; good heads to our hats hut!
Also before you come to the said Cape, after other 5 leagues to the Northwest part of it, there is certaine broken ground, with two great rockes, and within them in the bight of a bay, is a castle called Arra, perteining to the king of Portugall. You shall know it by the said rockes that lie off it: for there is none such from Cape de las Palmas to Cape Trepointes.
Sure its only sarvin' honest people right, to knock such a desaiver on the head. If he had parjured himself for sake of the truth, or to assist a brother in trouble or to help on the good cause it would be something; but to go to but arra, be me sowl, he'll sup sarra for it, sure enough! I thought it would make your mind aisy, or I wouldn't mintion it till we'd let the breath out of him."
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