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"Step up, ye divils, the Irishman shouted, applying his sharp-pointed spear to the sides of the most obstinate robber. "Go to the devil, you Irish bogtrotter!" was the reply. "Did ye hear him, master, dear, call me names? O, that the ruffians should abuse a dacent lad, who has worked night and day for the paraties that he ates, and the meat that he drinks." "Whiskey, more like," grunted Bill.
"And what, wid submission, did you fight our battles about, yer Reverence?" inquired Phaddhy. "Yesterday evening, in Parrah More Slevin's, they had him a miser, and yourself they set down as very little better." "Then I don't think I desarved that from Parrah More, anyhow, Father Philemy; I think I can show myself as dacent as Parrah More or any of his faction."
Denis, however, felt the peculiar delicacy of his situation, and looked at the priest, whilst the latter, under a momentary embarrassment, looked significantly at Denis. His Reverence, however, was seldom at a loss. "What would you take him to be worth, Mike?" he asked; "remember he's but badly trained, and I'm sure it will cost me both money and trouble to make anything dacent out of him."
I only begin to get hearty about seventeen, so that the long dozen, afther all, is best; for God he knows, I've a regard for Owen Smith this many a year, an' I wouldn't wish to lave him out." "Very well, I'll add it up to the other part of the oath. 'Octavo One ditto out of respect for dacent Owen Smith, of Lisbuy, 1 Now I must make the total amount thirteen, an' all will be right."
Lave go now loike a dacent sowl, lave go. And oh, for the love uv God, don't be shpakin' into me ear that way;" for the figure's mouth was pressed tight against the sergeant's ear, and its awful voice went through and through the little man's head, as it held forth about the volume.
Well! Quid multis? I say, that taking all these things into speculation, looking at them veluti in speculum it is neither dacent nor becoming that I should ate in the manner I have done, as vulgarly as themselves that I should ate, I say, any longer, without knife and fork.
Ethel sank down into a chair and covered her eyes. "The wretch!" she wailed, "the wretch!" "That's what he is," said Peg. "An' ye'd give yer life into his kapin' to blacken so that no dacent man or woman would ever look at ye or spake to ye again." "No! That is over! That is over!"
"Mickey Oulahan the lord's looking at ye, Mickey." This was said piannisime across the table, and had the effect of increasing Mr. Oulahan's donation from five shillings to seven the last two being pitched in very much in the style o a gambler making his final coup, and crying "va banque." "The Oulahans were always dacent people dacent people, my lord."
Oh, think, father, dear father, think of his white hairs; think of his pious wife, that every one respects; think of his good-hearted, kind daughters; think of their poverty, and all they have suffered so long; an' above all, oh, think, father dear, of what they will suffer if you are the manes of takin' that sorrowful white-haired ould man out from the middle of his poor, but lovin' and dacent and respected family, and hangin' him for an act that he has repented for, maybe, and that we ought to hope the Almighty himself has forgiven him for.
It looked too cowardly to send a man, even though he were an Indian, out of the world without an instant's warning. "Well, Thompson is done for, that's dead sure, and we'll have to give him a dacent burial. Whisht, there! did ye not hear somethin'?"
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