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"Aye, we'll jist show them what we calls worruk in our counthry, me darlints. Won't we, boys?" "Aye, aye," roared out the men, all anxious to set sail and see Old England again; sailors being generally the most restless mortals under the sun, and never satisfied at being long in one place. "Aye, aye, bo, we will!"
He declined to be drawn. "Is it old Moll Flannigan or one of her darlints you'd be wishing me luck to, ye spalpeen?" "Man, don't I say I've FOUND the wife for you?" Purdy was not jesting, and did not join in the fresh salvo of laughter with which Mahony greeted his words. "Oh, blow it, Dick, you're too fastidious too damned particular!
I didn't think ye had it in ye; come on darlints toothpicks and all as many as ye like; the more the better wan at a time, or all at wance, it don't matter, not the laste, be no manes!"
"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!
Be off wid ye thin, darlints, and steer clear of the likes of this ballyhoo of blazes as long as ye live. They murther us here every day, and starve us into the bargain. Here, Dick, lad, har! the poor divil's canow alongside; and paddle away wid yees for dear life." But we loitered awhile, listening to more inducements to ship; and at last concluded to stay to supper.
"I knowed ye would come, Captain; bless you, sir," said Amos Parr in an unsteady voice. "Come! Av coorse ye knowed it," cried O'Riley energetically. "Och, but don't be long wid the mate, darlints, me stummik's shut up intirely." "There won't be room for us all here, I'm afraid," remarked Bolton. This was true.
It's loike the toime whin the Irish exiles at Fontenoy marched up to the English gyards an' said, 'Gintlemen av the English Gyards, fire first! Begorra, it's mesilf that 'ud be the proud man to lend yez the loan av a couple av guns; but don't be alarrumed, darlints afther yez pay yer ranshom, ye'll have a chance." At the first sound of that voice Harry and Ashby started in amazement.
"I knowed ye would come, captain; bless you, sir," said Amos Parr, in an unsteady voice. "Come! Av coorse ye knowed it," cried O'Riley energetically. "Och, but don't be long wid the mate, darlints, me stummik's shut up intirely." "There won't be room for us all here, I'm afraid," remarked Bolton. This was true.
In answer to this remonstrance, he caught her by the foot, and pulled her down. Then waving the tattered remains of his straw hat in the air, he shouted with an air of triumph, "Git out wid you, you ould witch! Shure the ladies, the purty darlints, never sent you wid that ugly message to Pat, who loves them so intirely that he manes to kape watch over them through the blessed night."
"It's a fine mornin', my darlints," said Dan, as he entered the kitchen with a swagger, and laid his hat and riding-whip on the dresser, at the same time seating himself on the edge of a small table that stood near the window.
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