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The repayments required by the previous act, under which operations ceased on the 15th of August, had to be made on the principle of the grand jury cess, which laid the whole burthen upon the occupier.
"Why, then," he exclaimed, after rubbing his head with his fore-finger, "bad cess to me if I can remimber it; but the truth is, ma'am, I make so many purchases, and so many sales, that like the priest and them that confess to him, the last thing fairly drives the one that went afore it out o' my head." "You paid six guineas," continued Mrs. Temple, "for the shawl, but left it behind you."
"How could I be reading with you there croaking of this and that and speaking hard of my learning? Bad cess to the paper, I will be after reading it to myself if you are never to stop your clatter, Jem Bottles." "I be still as a dead rat," exclaimed the astonished highwayman. "Well, then," said Paddy. "Listen hard, and you will hear such learning as would be making your eyes jump from your head.
And himself after trapesin' off as permisc-yis as an ould hin that won't sit on her eggs, and lavin' his own flesh and blood behind him as if they were the dust on the road. And then he ups and gives chat about niver a sowl bein' left him." "'Twas Tishy bad cess to her," said Tom.
The murtherin' villin! won't I be aven wid him if iver he comes ashore, and pay him out bad cess to him!" "Are you sure," said Mr Meldrum, "that it is the long-boat?" "As sartin as there's mud in a ditch, son the divil a doubt of it!"
"'Tis 'Tony, here! and 'Tony, there! iv'ry blissid minute av th' day. An' 'tis movin' trunks an' boxes, and the like Mis' Grace should hire a nelephant at this time of the year, an' so I tell her. An' what with these here foreigners too bad 'cess to them! I have to chase ev'ry rag tag and bobtail on the place, so I do " "Not tramps again, Tony?" cried Jennie Stone. "'Tis worse.
I suppose he'll be sitting up for a gentleman now bad cess to them for gentry; not but that he's as good a right as some, and a dale more than others, who are ashamed to put their hand to a turn of work. I hate such huggery muggery work up in a corner.
"To think o' the red rascal a-takin' thet young leddy off!" she cried. "I know her by thet photygraph! Och, the villain! An' it moight have been Rosy Delaney, bad cess to him!" "Show me the exact trail he followed," said Rasco, and this the Irish woman did willingly.
Two other imprecations come under this head, which we will class together, because they are counterparts of each other, with this difference, that one of them is the most subtilely and intensely withering in its purport that can well be conceived. The one is that common curse, "Bad 'cess to you!" that is, bad success to you: we may identify it with "Hard fortune to you!"
We thin sailed west, a quarter south by compass, close- hauled on the starboard track, for two hours longer after you altered course ag'in an' bore up to the west'ard, keeping on till the ingines bhroke down, bad cess to 'em!" "When was that?" asked the skipper slowly. "I was so worried and flurried at the moment that I forgot to take the time."
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