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A black heart has Biddy Dillon? An' ye were ducked and soaked over night in the Liffey mud at Dublin, ye were claner than now? A black heart? An' yerself an ould penshioner, idle and mane, stirrin' up a scrimmage in an honest woman's house, and repeating yer haythenish nonsense, an' ye able and sthrong to take hould o' the heaviest end o' the work! Are ye not ashamed? What are ye good for?"
Much serious conversation had already passed in reference to the courtship, which was finally entered into and debated, pro and con. "Now, Paddy Donovan, that we're altogether, let me tell you one thing: there's not a betther natur'd boy, nor a stouther, claner young fellow in the parish, than my Phelim. He'll make your daughther as good, a husband as ever broke bread!"
"Thrue fer ye, Master Angel!" cried Mary Ellen heartily, "sure, there's noan o' the stiff-neck about ye, an' ye'll git yer fill av oysters an' cake fer that, mark my words! As fer my Mr. Watlin, there ain't a claner, smarter feller to be found annywheres. But, oh, if the mistress was to find it out " she turned pale with apprehension. "How could she?" we assured her.
It's so hard to get a young horse to stay the distance." "That's thrue, shure enough, my lord; and there isn't a gentleman this side the wather, anyway, undherstands thim things betther than your lordship." "Well, Grady, let's have a look at the young chieftain: he's all right about the lungs, anyway." "And feet too, my lord; niver saw a set of claner feet with plates on: and legs too!
You're claner 'n ever in my eyes." We strolled away together in the soft evening shadows, silent for a time. "Tell me, O'mie," I said at last, "how you happened to find me up there two hours ago?" "I was trailin' you to your hidin'-place. Bud, Heaven bless him, told me where your little sanctuary was, the night before he went away." There were tears in O'mie's voice, but soldiers do not weep.
I could take it to my dyin' day, that there's not a claner or dacenter pig in the kingdom, than the same pig. It never misbehaves, the crathur, but goes out, as wise an' riglar, jist by a look, an' that's enough for it, any day a single look, your haner, the poor crathur!"
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