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I hae but a feow stitches mair to put intil this same sole! The three o' 's maun tak some sarious coonsel thegither anent the upbringin o' this God-sent bairn! I doobtna but he's come wi' a blessin to this hoose! Eh, but it was a mercifu fittin o' things that the puir bairn and Maggie sud that nicht come thegither! Verily, He shall give his angels chairge over thee!
"Wh i s h h," said Aunt Letty, who could not allow such idolatry to pass by unobserved or unrebuked. "An' shure the blessin' of a poor woman cannot haram you," continued the mother, "an' I'll tell you what, neighbours, it'll be a bad day for him that folk call the heir when he puts his foot in that house."
"Depend upon it, comrades," cried Ruby, as they pulled away, "that I shall be back again to help you to finish the work on the Bell Rock." "So you will, lad, so you will," cried the foreman. "My blessin' on ye," shouted O'Connor. "Ach! ye dirty villains, ye low-minded spalpeens," he added, shaking his fist at the officers of justice. "Don't be long away, Ruby," cried one.
Look at thim, Jimmy agra only look at the black thieves! how warm an' wealthy they sit there in our ould possessions, an' here we must toil till our fingers are worn to the stumps, upon this thievin' bent. The curse of Cromwell on it! You might as well ax the divil for a blessin', as expect anything like a dacent crop out of it.
"Let the boy get his supper first," said Honor; "Bartle, you must be starved wid hunger." "Faith, I'm middlin' well, I thank you, that same way," replied Bartle; "divil a one o' me but's as ripe for my supper as a July cherry; an' wid the blessin' o' Heaven upon my endayvors I'll soon show you what good execution is."
But they never caught him, for Israel's "yea" remained "yea" and his "nay" "nay," even when navigating donkeys over the trackless waste of Killantringan Common. But in revenge, every now and then, Israel would get hold of a village lad and lead him triumphantly to his meeting, whence he would not come forth till, as like as not, "he had gotten the blessin'."
Sure, anim machree, I have nothin' to forgive you for, my heart's life; but may the blessin' of God and of a happy mother light on you! And, Denis asthore, wasn't it you that made me happy, and that made us all happy. May my blessin' and the blessin' of God rest upon you keep you from every evil, and in every good, till my eyes will be made glad by lookin' on you agin!"
"But you will give us your blessing, now?" said Annie, smiling. "My blessin' ain't worth nothin'; but I know the good Lord will bless you both, even if Miss Annie never was an awful sinner." "Mr. Tuggar," said Gregory, "I own that place over there. Will you take me for a neighbor till you are ready to be Mr. Walton's?" "O, Walter!" said Annie, with a glad cry, "is that really true?"
"Well," said the Deacon, "I know there's some condemns dancin'. I've heerd a good deal of talk about it among the folks round. Some have it that it never brings a blessin' on a house to have dancin' in it. Judge Tileston died, you remember, within a month after he had his great ball, twelve year ago, and some thought it was in the natur' of a judgment. I don't believe in any of them notions.
You couldn't do better. It's a ill wind that blows nobody good, an' Moseses misfortune is the deacon's blessin'." There was something else which made the good deacon accept Miss Maitland's offer with so much alacrity.
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