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Scraggs with all speed and celery possible. You have only to speak to turn this dreadful uncertainty into a horrible fact. I pay for what I break; that's me, Jo Bush. "'Well, ain't this suddent! she says. 'But I'll not stop ye from yer intentions men is that set in their ways! Run along, now, loike a good choild! "'Well, good-by, William! I says when we started, 'You see how it is yourself!"
He can't see that I am doing this simply for the Old Man's good. Spare the rod, spile the choild. Let's go and have a look at Tony when we're changed. He'll be in the sick-room if he's anywhere. 'All right, said the Babe, as he went into his study. 'Buck up. I'll toss you for first bath in a second. Charteris walked on with Welch to their sanctum.
"Sure, an' that Paydro ain't such a bad sort av chap afther all," observed Tim Rooney complacently as he rose from his seat, feeling comfortable as to his interior economy, the same as I did, and at peace with all mankind. "Bedad, I'd forgive him ivrythin', for a choild could play wid me now!"
Tomlin was heard arguing soon after, "for a man with the bone and muscle to 'em as I've got, wantin' work an' willin' to do anything, yet havin' to starve but whatever it is as is wrong, I'm thinkin' mobs ain't the way to right it." "An' if he'd only hed th' sinse to make the furrin' gintleman as could talk the gibberish to question th' Angel choild," said Mrs.
Yan was scribbling away, but had given up any attempt to make sketches or even notes beyond the names of the plants. "Shure, choild, put them papers wid the names on the hairbs an' save them; that wuz fwhat Docther Carmartin done whin Oi was larnin' him. Thayer, now, that's it," she added, as Yan took the hint and began slipping on each stalk a paper label with its name.
Next thing ye know some one'll slam the dooer, not knowin' a thing, and fire up, an' it's roastin' aloive ye'll be. Shure an' it's tempted Oi am to wring yer purty neck to save yer loife," and she drove him out with the harshest of words and the gentlest of hands. Then Yan, with his arms full of labelled plants, set out for home. "Good-boi, choild, come back agin and say me soon.
Often and sadly did he speak to his friends at the Kitchen of his resemblance to King Lear in the plee of his having a thankless choild, bedad of his being a pore worn-out, lonely old man, dthriven to dthrinking by ingratitude, and seeking to dthrown his sorrows in punch.
Somehow an atmosphere of unrest and uncertainty, a sensation of expectation in the face of some unforeseen calamity, seemed to hover over Merry Home. It was nearly mid-afternoon, and Inza was on the veranda, with Elsie near, when Maggie appeared, looking puzzled and frightened. "Shure, ma'am," she said, "Oi wish ye'd come up and take a peep at the choild."
Will you stay with him support him but for a few moments, while I make to yon light? See, I have money plenty of money!" "My good lad, it is very ugly work staying here at this hour: still where's the choild?" "Here, here! make haste, raise him! that's right! God bless you! I shall be back ere you think me gone."
The next morning the doctor, meeting my mother, laughingly remarked that it was very plain that they couldn't practise in the same district: he had just met Mrs. Gunning, who informed him that "what Mrs. gave her the night befoor done the choild a power of good."
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