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'That's easy to understand, barrin' a word here and there, says father, taking his pipe out of his mouth and laying it down; 'that's the way they used to talk to us in the old days. Dashed if I don't think it's the best way after all. You know where you are. The rest's flummery. All on us as takes to the cross does it with our eyes open, and deserves all we gets.
When all the world is blue and sunny, fog-banks lie like a sheet of cotton-wool on these coasts. "Barrin' fogs always barrin' fogs!" Captain Cable had said as his last word on leaving the Signal House. "If ye wait a month, never move in a fog in these waters, or ye'll move straight to Davy Jones!"
"Fwat sinse in the ould man bodderin' us?" grumbled Corporal Kennedy, a tall Fenian dragoon from the British army. "Sure, ain't it as plain as the sun and faith the same's not plain this dirthy mornin' that there's no work for cavalry the day, barrin' it's escortin' the doughboys' prisoners, if they take any? bad 'cess to the job.
Put on thy strength. Only it come out some differ'nt from me than it come from Isaiah. I didn't know quite what I was goin' to say, but just then I looked up Daphne Street, an' I see 'em all sprinkled along comin' from the funeral neighbours an' friends an' just folks an' most of 'em livin' in Friendship peaceful an' barrin' slopovers doin' the level best they could.
I see by the anger in your eye an' the whiteness of your cheeks, barrin' the little red spot in the middle, that something out o' the way all out has happened to vex you."
"And who are we indebted to for the present?" she asked again. "I'm not at liberty to say," replied the other; "barrin' that it's from a friend and well-wisher." Mrs. Dalton clasped her hands, and looking with an appearance of abstraction, on the straw as it burned in the fire, said in a voice that became infirm by emotion "Oh! I know it; it can be no other.
"Whisht, whisht," replied Molly, with an expression of mysterious and superior knowledge; "don't be spakin' about what you don't understand sure, nuttin's impossible to God, avick don't you know that?" "Oh, bedad, sure enough that we must allow, whether or not, still " "Very well; seein' that, what more have we to say, barrin' to hould our tongues.
The childer had been two days without mate then, an' faith I couldn't bear it any longer. After that I did sell the big pan, an' then the new rockin' chair, an' so on, one thing after another, till all wint entirely, barrin' this I am sittin' on, an' they wint for next to nothin' too. Sure, I paid 9s. 6d. for the bed itself, which was sold for 1s. 6d. We all sleep on straw now."
Barrin' ye ar' a right peart-lookin' kid, stranger, allow me ter speculate thet it would take a dozen, more or less consider'bly less uv more than more o' less ter put me out." Redburn laughed heartily. The old fellow's bravado amused him. Anita however, was silent; she put dependence in her protector to arrange matters satisfactorily.
An', Jawn, by dad, barrin' where th' brewery horse spilt oats on th' durestep an' th' patches iv grass on th' dump, sare a growin' thing but childher has that little man seen in twinty years. "'Twas hotter whin I seen him nex', an' I said so. ''Tis war-rum, he says, laughin'. 'By dad, I think th' ice 'll break up in th' river befure mornin', he says.
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