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"If Dewey chooses to hire him, what is it to us?" "I ain't goin' to demane myself by workin' wid a yeller haythen." "Nobody has asked you to do it. If anybody is demeaning himself it is Dick Dewey, and he has a right to if he wants to." "If he wants to hire anybody, let him hire a dacent Christian." "Like you, O'Reilly?" "I don't want to work for anybody. I work for myself.
"It 'u'd all be well ernuff, Mis' Flannigan, ef I had n' met you; but I don' know whar I 's ter fin' a colored lady w'at 'll begin ter suit me after habbin' libbed in de same house wid you." "Colored lady, indade! Why, Misther Braboy, ye don't nade ter demane yerself by marryin' a colored lady not but they 're as good as anybody else, so long as they behave themselves.
"I wouldn't demane myself to Barry so much as to wish her out of this now she's here. But it was along of you she came here, and av' I've to pay for all this lawyer work, you oughtn't to see me at a loss. I'm shure I don't know where your sisthers is to look for a pound or two when I'm gone, av' things goes on this way," and again the widow whimpered.
"And takes her victuals with them," said Katie, "share and share alike. She that was so grand a lady, to demane herself to the poor unfortunate young things! She's as blessed a saint as any a one in the Calendar, if they'll forgive me for saying so." "Ay! demeaning, indeed! for the best of it is, they're not the respectable ones only, though she spends hundreds on them "
I'd have you to know, Mr Daly, I wouldn't demane myself to rob the best gentleman in Connaught, let alone a poor unprotected young woman, whom I've " "Whist, mother go asy," said Martin. "I tould you that that was what war in the paper he gave me; he'll give you another, telling you all about it just this minute." "Well, the born ruffian! Does he dare to accuse me of wishing to rob his sister!
'Tis the murtherin' moonlighters will get the land, an' me son wouldn't demane himself by stoppin' in the counthry to work for them. First 'twas the landlords dhrove us away, next 'twill be the tenants. We're bound to be slaughtered some way, although 'twas said that when we 'bolished the landlords we'd end our troubles.
What's he doing in Ballynavogue the day? Pat. Standing he is there, in the fair-green with his score of fat bullocks, that he has got to sell. Catty. Fat bullocks! Them, I reckon, will go towards Honor McBride's portion, and a great fortin she'll be for a poor man but I covet none of it for me or mine. Pat. I'm sure of that, ma'am, you would not demane yourself to the likes. Catty.
Sure if your lordship would so demane yourself as to kiss it, to-day, you would never have any trouble in governing Irishmen at all. You would have only to spake, and the spirit of fight and rebellion would leave them, and they would be quiet as lambs." "Indeed! that would be a miracle; but how am I to get at the stone?" "Oh, that is aisy done.
"An' is it to rayport mesilf to that omahdaun ye're afther axin me, sor?" he said scornfully, tossing his head and leering out of his little pig eyes in the most comical way. "Faix, I'd rayther not, wid your favour, sor. I wouldn't demane mesilf by spakin' to the loikes ov Sarjent Linstock, sor!"
Now, sir, do you think that a classical scholar and a gentleman born, like me, is to demane myself by hearing you puzzle at the alphabet? You're quite mistaken, Mr Keene, you must gain your first elements second-hand; so where's Thimothy Ruddel?
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