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Presently, however, recovering myself, I said: "Really, I don't think it would be for the glory of God to give you alms." "Ye don't! Then, Biadh an taifrionn however, I'll give ye a chance yet. Am I to get my alms or not?" "Before I give you alms I must know something about you. Who are you?" "Who am I? Who should I be but Johanna Colgan, a bedivilled woman from the county of Limerick?"
Now, honey, ye have heard the story of Johanna Colgan, the bedivilled woman. Give her now a dacent alms and let her go!" "Would you consider sixpence a decent alms?" "I would. If you give me sixpence, I will not say my prayer over ye." "Would you give me a blessing?" "I would not. A bedivilled woman has no blessing to give."
A man close to me picks up a black gun-wad an' sings out, 'I have ut, 'Good may ut do you. sez I. The coolie wint forward to this big, fine, red man, who threw a cloth off av the most sumpshus, jooled, enamelled an' variously bedivilled sedan-chair I iver saw." "Sedan-chair! Put your 'ead in a bag. That was a palanquin. Don't yer know a palanquin when you see it?" said Ortheris with great scorn.
"Good may ut do you," sez I. The coolie wint forward to this big, fine, red man, who threw a cloth off av the most sumpshus, jooled, enamelled an' variously bedivilled sedan-chair I iver saw. 'Sedan-chair! Put your 'ead in a bag. That was a palanquin. Don't yer know a palanquin when you see it? said Ortheris with great scorn.
"Well, so ye shall, honey; and I make no doubt ye will give me a dacent alms, for I like the look of ye, and knew ye to be an Irishman half a mile off. Only four years ago, instead of being a bedivilled woman, tumbling about the world, I was as quiet and respectable a widow as could be found in the county of Limerick.
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