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He put his hand to his head, and said, absently: "It's my duty and it's orders, and... what was I sayin'? The disgrace of me if, if... bedad! the sleep's on me; I'm awake, but I can't open my eyes.... If the orders of me and a good meal... and the disgrace... to do me duty-looked the world in the face " During this speech he staggered to his feet, Jen watching him anxiously the while.

Bedad there's room enough for you, and half a dozen more of your weight!" cried out Mike Coffey, who was one of the persons, and Nat was the other. "I'd sooner swim off myself, Mr Hartley." Owen accordingly complied, and found that the spar would support them all. "What has been and happened?" asked Nat, still not recovered from the terror.

"Bedad," she said aloud, "to-morrer I'll clane thim lamp-chimbleys and swape the bidrooms." The letter which Phoebe brought was a long and cordial one, in which Dora begged that Miriam would come and make her a visit of a few days. She said, moreover, that her brother was intending to call on Mr. Haverley and urge him to come to their house as frequently as he could during his sister's visit.

As for myself, I've had the patience of a Trojan." *"Bachelor," in Ireland, especially in the country parts of it, where English is not spoken correctly, is frequently applied to both the sexes. Ellen pledged him beautifully with her eyes, but very moderately with the liquor. "Bedad!" he proceeded, "seven years ay, and a half wasn't a bad apprenticeship, at any rate; but, as I tould Mr.

Finding I am for travelling, Valeria, to show the height of her love, is as willing I should see Europe as Eliza was I should see America. 'Och! give me the book, you divil, cried Daddy, growing more and more Hibernian as his passion rose, 'and, bedad, but I'll drive it into you. And, reaching over, Daddy seized it, and turned over the pages with a trembling hand.

'Bedad, I think it is revolvers and policemen you ought to be givin' me, not swatemates, he said, affecting a brogue. 'Oh yes, is it not dreadful? exclaimed Mrs. Barton. 'I don't know what we shall do if the Government don't put down the Land League; we shall all be shot in our beds some night. Did you hear of that murder the other day?

"Off he went after it the first thing this mornin'." "Whethen now, is that the way of the win'?" said Ody Rafferty's aunt, with a pleased smile, striking out unfamiliar paths among her wrinkles. "Troth, but I'm rael glad to hear it. Bedad, it's a grand thing for little Theresa." "He's a very dacint poor lad," Mrs.

"There could be no better place than one of the towers," The McMurrough suggested, "for keeping them safe, bedad!" "And why'll they be safer there than in the house?" Uncle Ulick asked suspiciously. He looked from one speaker to another with a baffled face, trying to read their minds. He was sure that they meant more than they said.

You need not ask leave of their masters; and perhaps if they ever get home, they'll look on poor people as if they were flesh and blood like themselves. Away went the prince, and bedad! it's tired and hungry he was when he reached the first castle, at sunset. Oh, wasn't the second princess glad to see him! And what a good supper she gave him.

"We fell asleep at daylight, and when I told Monk, the butler, he said it was a corpse, sure a corpse whose legs had been tied to keep them straight and the cords had not been taken off, the feet not being loosened. Isn't it awful? And, bedad, Miss, it's every word true.