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"Darby, thry this again," said Reillaghan, offering him another bumper. "Troth an' I will, thin, for I find myself a great dale the betther of the one I tuck. Well, here's health an' happiness to us, an' may we all meet in heaven! Risthard, hand me that horn till I be goin' out to the barn, in ordher to do somethin' for my sowl. The holy wather's a good thing to have about one."
You know what I told you afore about my family how we wor ever an' always doin' our best against the Sassanach Laws an ould family it is an' sure ould blood is betther than riches any day an' it isn't complexion aither, Miss Julia, that a this way, darlin' this way an' how long now is it since you fell in consate with me?
"An' another thing, Felix dear but first tell me are you gettin' betther?" "I am," replied the youth, "my head is a little confused, but I have no pain." Hugh raised his hands and streaming eyes to heaven.
"Frank Finnerty, how are you? an' Vread, achora, not forgettin' you my hand to you both, but we're lost especially this gentleman, Mr. M'Carthy a great friend of Mr. O'Driscol's and Procthor Parcel's but a betther man than either o' them, I hope." "I am fairly knocked up, I admit," said M'Carthy "in fact, I am more jaded than I ever was in my life."
"And it WAS a joke, Peg, wasn't it?" "Sure, it was, father." "You ought to have known betther than that. During all that long month ye were there did ye meet one Englishman that ever saw a joke?" "Not many, father. Cousin Alaric couldn't." "Did ye meet ONE?" "I did, father." "Ye did?" "I did." "THERE was a man whose friendship ye might treasure." "I do treasure it, father." "Ye do?"
"Why, I'm not such a hare as yourself," replied his rival, "nor such a great hand at batin' the absent ha, ha, ha!" "Bravo, Misther Connell that's a leveller; come, Misther Costigan, bedad, if you don't answer that you're bate." "By this and by that, man alive, if you don't mend your manners, maybe I'd make it betther for you to be absent also.
"So I think! aye, and it would be betther for you that you thought so, too; but ye don't know what's before ye yet, Phaddhy and now take warnin' in time, and mend your life." "Why what do you see wrong in my life?
"What are ye after at all? Have ye nothing betther to do than to block up the door of a decent office?" "What's the news?" cried a dozen voices. "The news, is it?" roared O'Flaherty, more angrily than ever; "and can't ye foind out that by paying your sixpences like men, and taking the Advertoiser?
"This is Condy Dalton's house?" said the strange woman in a tone of inquiry. "Sich as it is, it's his house, an' the best he has, my poor creature. I wish it was betther both for his sake and yours," he replied, in a calm and resigned voice, for his heart had been touched and solemnized by the act of devotion which had just concluded. Mrs.
The divil may take ye to cover one of his imps; an' wid that I sthirred up the fire, and sent it plump into the middle of the blaze." "And what will you do for a shirt?" "Faith, do as many a betther man has done afore me, go widout." I looked up two old shirts of my husband's, which John received with an ecstacy of delight.
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