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It will ease my sorrow, for my poor heart is breaking entirely, and he is there," pointing to the corpse, "and he knows that what I am afther telling you is thrue. "I came of poor but dacent parints. There was but the two of us, Pat C and I. My father rinted a good farm, and he sint Pat to school, and gave him the eddication of a jintleman.
Sure ye'd be more dacent to any mortal man that gave ye a bit and sup; but what ye're not taught, poor man, ye can't know. Listen now: ye're to take us to church to-morrow according to your bargain." "Yes," said the Captain, gruffly; "but thar warn't no bargain about preaching and praying and singing." "Sure I don't ask it,", said Brother Bart, sadly.
"And sure, haven't I seen it with my own eyes, when I've been there charing?" "Ay, but those she lives with are the fallen and the lost ones those that the rich would not set up in business, or help them to emigrate, or lift them out of the gutter with a pair of tongs, for fear they should stain their own whitewash in handling them." "And sure they're as dacent as meself now, the poor darlints!
I know I'm in bad trim to come into a dacent workshop, but you know necessity has no law; it isn't my clo'es that will work, but myself; an', indeed, if you do employ me, it's not much I'll be able to do this many a day; but the truth is, if I don't get something to keep me busy, I doubt I won't be able to stand against what I feel both in my mind and body."
"If you'll let me finish what I have to say, Mrs Kelly, I think you'll find it betther for the whole of us," said Daly. "Go on thin, and be quick with it; but don't talk to dacent people about robbers any more. Robbers indeed! they're not far to fitch; and black robbers too, glory be to God."
At the foot of this little hill, just under the shelter of a dacent pebble of a rock, something above the bulk of half a dozen churches, one would be apt to see if they knew how to look sharp, otherwise they mightn't be able to make it out from the gray rock above it, except by the smoke that ris from the chimbley Nancy Magennis's little cabin, snug and cosey with its corrag* or ould man of branches, standing on the windy side of the door, to keep away the blast.
And it ended in Judy's being produced, and the two of them, at length, explained to their master, that the widow had come up early in the morning and fetched her away; and Judy swore "that not a know she knowed how it had come about, or what had induced the widow to come, or Miss Anty to go, or anything about it; only, for shure, Miss Anty was down there, snug enough, with Miss Jane and Miss Meg; and the widdy war in her tantrums, and wouldn't let ony dacent person inside the house-door barring Biddy.
The first thing he did, after he had filled his pockets with them, was to look if his mother's cabin was to the fore; and there surely it was, as snug as ever, with the same dacent column of smoke rowling from the chimbley.
"And who was -it, sur, wid submission, that murdhered you?" To this I made no reply. "I say," continued Ned, "in the name of G-o-o-d-ness who was it that took the liberty of murdhering you, dacent man?" "Ned Corrigan," I answered, giving his own name. "Hem! God presarve us! Ned Corrigan!" he exclaimed. "What Ned, for there's two of them is it myself or the other vagabone?"
"Ye bet Oi do, sor. Sthep out there, Burke, yer slab-sided boss o' Swades, or Oi 'll show ye what a dacent Oirishman an O'Brien, bedad, thinks o' the loikes of ye; Oi will that."
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