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"Begorra, Michael, me poor lad," he whispered, "be the look av the white face of you I'm thinkin' ye ought to be in bed instid av out raisin' ructions." "I'm weak; I have a fever," Murphy replied. "Still, half that fever may be plain lunatic rage. Did you find a gun on the mate?" "I did. Take it, Michael, I'll have nothin' to do wit' it." The skipper grasped the weapon eagerly.
"Begorra, I 'd be glad if I could make one ind meet!" returned Margaret. With a duplicity quite foreign to his nature, Mr. Bilkins gradually drew from her the true state of affairs. Mr. O'Rourke was a very bad case indeed; he did nothing towards her support; he was almost constantly drunk; the little money she had laid by was melting away, and would not last until winter. Mr.
This was addressed now to the driver, who had descended from his box, and was standing in advance of the horse. 'Why don't I drive on, is it? asked he, in a voice of despair. 'Sure, there's no road. 'And does it stop here? cried Walpole in horror, for he now perceived that the road really came to an abrupt ending in the midst of the bog. 'Begorra, it's just what it does.
There were but two points that seemed to stick in my nervous mind: 'It never would do to tell our marriage at that moment, and I must find that sailor, who might still be living." "He found me, sure enough, begorra!" exclaimed Mike Donovan, giving the relief of laughter to that intense narrative. "Cowardly as you may call my resolution, gentlemen, it was all the resolution I had left.
"Sure, the little haythen'll have a foine Christian Christmas wid that same to roast in the coals, begorra!" and they all went to bed save Mac, who had not returned, and the Boy, who put on his furs, and went up the hill to the place where he kept the Christmas-tree lodged in a cotton-wood. He shook the snow off its branches, brought it down to the cabin, decorated it, and carried it back.
"Begorra, but I shouldn't wonder if that's worth something," remarked Tim, catching the contagion. Jeff merely smiled and reached out his hand without any appearance of excitement. "Let me have a look at it." He never used glasses, nor did he bring any acid with which to test such yellow metals as they might find, for he needed neither. He had been trained too well in his early manhood.
If we don't, I'll be the sorest feller you can find in seventeen States and seven Territories!" "I don't know where you'd discover so many Territories," laughed Frank. "We'll do our best to beat them, boys; but we're not in good practice, you know." "Begorra, we've been practicin' ivery day for a week!" came from Mulloy. "That sort of practice isn't like regular games," reminded Merry.
The smiles, nods, and hand-clasps expected of the chief were lavishly dispensed by his mortified satellites, all of which availed not to smother the curses, loud and deep, splitting the summer air, as the wheels disappeared in the forest. "Begorra, thin," bawled Patsey, "it's mesilf ut'll niver vote fur this big Yankee 'ristocrat, innehow.
"Begorra, but isn't he a bouncer?" whispered Tim, coming to a halt. "I niver looked upon as big a one." "Has he hurt Billy?" asked Warren, who, as will be remembered, was a few paces behind him while making the brief run. "He has scared him out of ten years' growth, and it's mesilf that's going to pay the same compliment to the spalpeen." "Be careful, Tim!
'Begorra, because maybe if they did, the constabulary would put them in jail. So the constabulary have some value after all, in spite of the sneers of Home Rule members in the House of Commons. Half a dozen Kerry priests screeched with laughter when I told them that story in the train, having met them on a journey to Farranfore. Here is another I also gave them on that occasion.
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