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"Right as right could be, Mother," he admitted. "Your figgers was a few hundred thousand out of the way, maybe, but barrin' that you was perfectly right." "Well, I'm glad to hear you say so for once in your life. Albert," holding up the envelope, "do you know what this is?" Albert, much puzzled, admitted that he did not.
"Well, but consarnin' what I mintioned awhile agone hut! the poor mad crathur, let us have no more discoorse about her I say, that no one ever thrives so well as when the world sees that they are gettin' an, an' prosperin'; but if there's not an appearance, how will any one know whether we are prosperin' or not, barrin' they see some sign of it about us; I mane, in a quiet rasonable way, widout show or extravagance.
He was quite well off an' barrin' he was always heathen selfish it was a splendid match for Calliope, but I never see a girl care so next to nothin' about that. She was sheer crazy about him, an' he seemed just as much so about her.
"Why thin now do you think me sich a born nathral as to give in to that? as if the ringin' iv the bell, barrin' it was a blissed bell, could do the like. I tell you it's unpossible." "Ah, nothin' 's unpossible to God." "Sure I wasn't denyin' that; but I say the bell is unpossible."
"Now, Moike," cried Mrs. O'Callaghan when Pat was gone, "here's a chance for you. It's lucky I am to be at home the day. I'll be teachin' you a bit of all sorts, so I will, for you've everything to larn, Moike, and that's the truth, barrin' the lay of the tracks, and the switches, and the empty cars a-standin' about, and how to kape the little b'ys from hurtin' thimsilves."
"Well then, barrin' the fact that you ain't got no hat, ain't you jest as well off without no overcoat now as I'd be if I fell for any hard-luck spiel from you and let you have mine?" "I wouldn't go so far as to say that exactly," tendered Mr. Leary ingratiatingly. "I'm afraid my clothing isn't as suitable for outdoor wear as yours is.
That boy beats anything this here country ever perduced, barrin' none, and I ain't sayin' that, either, ma'am, just to please you." "Much thanks I owe you for what you think of Joe!" said she, scornfully. "You was ready enough, not so very long ago, to set the whole world ag'in' him if you could." "Well, circumstantial evidence " began Sol. "Oh, circumstantial nest-eggs!" said she, impatiently.
"'E's a bloomin' fool," quoth Ben, evidently feeling that this exigency had removed all restraint of speech as regarded the captain. "Wot will 'e do short handed with a hundred or more black devils aboard in case trouble comes? Barrin' I were out o' here though, I wouldn't care if I never touched a halyard of the Wanderer again."
But I want you to lend me the loan of a pair of shoes; divil a tatther of these will be together soon, barrin' I get them mended in time; you can't begrudge that, any how, an' me wearin' them on your own business." "Nonsense, man to be sure I will; stop an' I'll bring them out to you in half a shake."
Of course we're Scotch. You can tell by the Mac. The only McHale that ever was in Ireland went there to civilize it." "To civ'lize Ireland!" Mr. Quilty cried in derision. "Hear till him! And Ireland the owldest civ'lization in the wurruld, barrin' none, and the best!
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