United States or Bouvet Island ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Faith, Randal, it's about your neck it'll go, and you'll put out your tongue at the daicent people that will attend your own funeral yet that is, if you don't let us off." "Put them both to their knees," said the Rapparee in a voice of thunder, "to their knees with them. I'll take the masther, and, Kineely, do you take the man."
Begorra, you'd hardly know him if you seen him; he's as smooth as a new pin has a plain, daicent suit o' clothes on him. It's whispered about among us this long time, that, if he had his rights, he'd be entitled to a great property; and some people say now that he has come into a part of it." "And pray, what else do they say of him?"
"This liquor," said the schoolmaster, "would be nothing the worse of a little daicent mellowness and flavor; but, at the same time, we must admit that, though sadly deficient in a spirit of exhilaration, it bears a harmonious reference to the beautiful beef and cabbage which we got for dinner. The whole of them are what I designate as sorry specimens of metropolitan luxury.
On concluding, he winked again at old Ned, and touched his pocket as before. "Mr. Amby, be quiet," said Ned, rather complacently though, "an' let daicent Mrs. Mulroony go on."
"The only favor you can bestow upon Miss Sullivan, as you are plaised to call her, is to pass her by," said Dalton; "she wishes to have no intimacy nor conversation of any kind with such a noted profligate. She knows your carrechter, Mr. Henderson; or if she doesn't, I do an' that it's as much as a daicent girl's good name is worth to be seen spakin' to you. Now, I tell you again to pass on.
"He was always a daicent, sinsible, poor creature of his kind," replied his mother "besides, Hycy, between you and me, she'll be more than worth her bit." "There now, Peety," said her son, turning towards the mendicant; "it's all settled wait now for a minute till I write a couple of notes, which you must deliver for me."
The child is a faymale child, says the angel with one head and ten horns by name Mabel Sullivan, daughter to honest Jerry Sullivan and his daicent wife Bridget, of Aughnamurrin. Amin, says the Prophet. Time is not tide, nor is tide time, and neither will wait for man. Three things will happen.
"As his honor done a great dale o' good! to the poor o' the counthry, I think it wouldn't be daicent in us, Misther Malcomson, to go for to publish this generous act to the poor priesht; if he is wrong, let us lave him to Gad, shir." "Ou ay, weel I dinna but you're richt; the mair that we won't hae to answer for his transgressions; sae e'en let every herring hang by its ain tail."
"So far, then," replied the grazier, "we do agree; an', dang my buttons, but I'll lave it to this gentleman if it wouldn't be betther for Miss Gourlay to marry a daicent button-maker any day, than such a hurler as Dunroe. What do you say, sir?" "But who is this button-maker," asked the stranger, "and where is he to be found?"
"Ay, has there a very daicent respectable man has it, by name one Darby Skinadre. "At any rate there's no harm in tryin' worse than fail we can't, an' if we succeed it'll be good to come in for anything from the ould scoundrel, before the devil gets him." Jemmy gave him a look. "Why, what have you to say against the ould boy? Sure it's not casting reflections on your own masther you'd be."
Word Of The Day