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The poor creature gave a faint smile, for she knew the man's character thoroughly. "I have a dish of butther here, Darby," she said, "an' I want meal instead of it." "Butther, Molly; why thin, Molly, sure it isn't to me you're bringing butther me that has so much of it lyin' on my hands here already.
While he was yet describing the steward's peculiar temperament and strange characteristics, the clattering sounds all at once ceased in the pantry; and the Portuguese presently appeared with a tray on which were clean plates and cups and saucers, which he proceeded to lay neatly and dexterously at one end of the table, looking as calm and quiet as if "butther wouldn't milt in his mouth, sure," as Tim remarked.
"Och! by all manner of manes, and welcome; the dhevil a foot of the way but I know as well as my own clearing; but come into the house, and get a dhrink of milk, an' a bite of bread an' butther, for sorrow a dhrop of the whiskey has crossed my teeth for the last month; an' it's but poor intertainment for man or baste I can offer you, but shure you're heartily welcome."
A shade of bitterness came across her features at this iniquitous proposal; but she felt the truth of that old adage in all its severity, that necessity has no law. "God help us," she exclaimed "threepence a pound for such butther as this! however, it's the will of God sure, an' it can't be helped take it."
"Such lashins of corned beef, and rounds of beef, and legs of mutton, and bacon turkeys and geese, and barn-door fowls, young and fat. They may talk as they will, but commend me to a piece of good ould bacon, ate with crock butther, and phaties, and cabbage. Sure enough, they leathered away at everything, but this and the pudding were the favorites.
"Look at that now what she has for you, Miss! Shixteen pints! An' I'll engage I'll knock thirteen ounces o' butther out of it! That's the little bracket cow that yourself and Johnny Galvin wanted to sell, an' I withstood ye!"
"'God save ye, says she, 'may yer meal barrel niver run empty an' may yer bread foriver be roughcasted wi' butther! "I begun t' swither whin she left. Says I, 'Withero, is yer specs clane? Kin ye see th' Son ov Maan in th' Dummy? 'Begorra, I dunno, says I t' m'self. I scratched m' head an' swithered till I thought m' brains wud turn t' stone.
Clancy, taking down the flat loaf from the shelf in the corner; "wait till I put a pinch o' sugar on it. I'm sorry I haven't butther for ye, but there isn't a bit in the house at all. There now." "Thank you, ma'am," said Roseen, extending an eager hand. "Ye're welcome, darlint. Here, Mike, ye'd like a bit too, wouldn't ye?" "Aye," said Mike, drawing near likewise.
He wore red and yellow livery and shining buttons, and we thought he was likely the official butler or door boy. He seemed to have eaten too much, as a rule, and looked sleepy and in a bad temper. "Boy" says Flannagan, striding up to him, "where's the misbegotten and corrupt official of Disthressionary Regularities? Do we wait here till the explosion of doom? Spheak, ye lump of butther!" he says.
"Why, sir, a crock o' butther that was stolen from me; and I'm tould for a sartinty that you can discover the thief o' the world that stole it." "And so I can. Do you suspect anybody?" "Troth, sir, I can't say for I live in a very honest neighborhood.
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