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He's up first!" cried a girl whose brilliant complexion and still more brilliant locks proclaimed her relationship to the captain of the north side. "Huh! Barney'll soon catch him, you'll see," cried Margaret. "Oh, Barney, hurry! hurry!" "Indeed, he will need to hurry," cried Rory's sister, mercilessly exultant. "He's up! He's up!"
"The docthers think me Barney'll live, but oi thank Misther Merwyn that took him out o' the very claws uv the bloody divils, and not their bat's eyes. Faix, but he tops all yez frin's, Miss Marian, tho' ye're so could to 'im. All the spalpanes in the strates couldn't make 'im wink, yet while I was a-wailin' over Barney he was as tender-feelin' as a baby."
"Barney'll get over it, and come to supper." "No, he won't," groaned the old man "no, he won't. He's jest like your mother." The weeks went on, and still Barnabas had not yielded. The story of his quarrel with Cephas Barnard and his broken engagement with Charlotte had become an old one in Pembroke, but it had not yet lost its interest.
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