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"Now," said he, "you all see that you all see that he won't kiss me again, and that is bekaise he can't do it; Atty, Atty," he said, "won't you speak to me? it's I, Atty, sure it's I, Atty dear, your lovin' father, that's callin' you to spake to him. Atty dear, won't you spake to me do you hear my voice, asthore machree do you hear your father's voice, that's callin' on you to forgive him?"
"I fell, Atty dear," she replied, "and was cut." "That's a lie, Atty; it was I, your fine chip of a father, that struck her. Here's her health, at all events! I'll make one dhrink of it; hoch! they may talk as they like, but I'll stick to Captain Whiskey."
Well," he went on, "I will kiss his lips, his blessed lips oh, many an' many a kiss, many a sweet and innocent kiss did I get from them lips, Atty dear, with those little arms, that are now so helpless, clasped about my neck." He then kissed him again and again, but the blessed child's lips did not return the embrace that had never been refused before.
"Here, Atty, before you go to bed agin, jist a weeshy sup more to drink your little sisther's health; sure Kate Sharpe brought you home a little sisther, Atty." "The boy's head will not be able to stand so much," said Frank; "you will make him tipsy." "Divil a tipsy; sure it's only a mere draineen." He then made the little fellow drink the baby's health, after which he was despatched to bed.
Now, however, it hung from the little girl's hand, the poor frightened creature, who, the minute she saw her step-mother, tried to run away up stairs. "Titia, come back! Tell me where you have been, without Phillis or any body, and when I desired you not to go out again." "It was only to to fetch a crocus for Atty." "Where is the crocus?" "I dropped it." "And this key.
At that moment Mulrennan entered the room, with Atty behind him, but he had scarcely done so, when Art with all his strength flung the hard beach chair at his head; the lad, naturally anxious to avoid it, started to one side out of its way, and Atty, while in the act of stretching out his arms to run to his father, received the blow which had been designed for the other.
"Dear Sir: Owing to the recommendations of our official surveyors, we are prepared to make you a fair offer for the northwest quarter section of your property, to be utilized in laying a branch line of the B.N. and C. Will you kindly authorize your attorney to confer with us upon this matter, at your earliest convenience?" "Yours very truly, Nelson R. Slater, Atty.
The mother was rather satisfied than otherwise, that the boy should sit up with her, especially as all the other children and the servants had gone to bed. "Mammy," said the boy, "isn't it a great comfort for us to be as we are now, and to know that my father can never get drunk again?" "It is indeed, Atty;" and yet she said so; with a doubting, if not an apprehensive heart.
"An' would you wish to die, mother?" "Only for your sake, Atty, and for the sake of the other darlins, if it was the will of God, I would; and," she added, with a feeling of indescribable anguish, "what have I now to live for but to see you all about me in misery and sorrow!" The tears as she spoke ran silently, but bitterly, down her cheeks.
There must be no bringing them into the contest. Christian saw that, and with a strong effort of self-control she said to Miss Gascoigne, "I think, before we discuss this matter, the children had better leave the room. Go, Atty and Titia; your aunts and I will send word to the nursery by-and-by."
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