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"I promised Tim that I'd do as he wished, and that if I failed he might haunt me, if he'd a mind to do so, till my dying day. Tim has come more than once in my dhrames to remind me, and I've been aiger ever since to do his bidding." "And where's the bit of paper?" asked Captain Tracy eagerly.
"What is there over the whole counthry but starvation and misery?" "Any dhrames about America since, Charley? eh, now?" "Maybe ay, and maybe no, Rody. Is it true that Tom Dalton threatens all kinds of vengeance on the Sullivans?" "Ay, is it, an' the whole counthry says that he's as ready to knock one o' them on the head as ever the father before him was.
"Yes, it's mesilf that will be risting with the bastes, the night," said Pat, thinking she had alluded to the creatures in the barn; "and I'll be wishing ye swate dhrames, and a plinty' of thim;" saying which he disappeared, leaving the trembling Biddy in great anxiety of mind as to what should be his fate.
Now, out with yiz, neighbors all; the entertainment's over, and it's time for good folk to be in the land of dhrames. You stay ahint with me, Bet, darlint I have a word for your private ear." It was quite evident that in Paradise Row Mother Bunch's smallest command was law; in an incredibly short space of time the little room was cleared, and Mrs. O'Flaherty and Bet were alone.
Och, bedad, they are afther liftin' out the bed now mind it doesn't fall to pieces on yez before yez get it into the cart. Troth, ould Peter himself ought to sleep in that iligant bed; it's the pleasant dhrames he'd have!" "It doesn't become ye to be talkin' that way, Pat," cried "Herself," flushed and weeping; "that was me mother's bed, so it was.
So go up to bed now; and swate dhrames to you, and the blessing of Molly O'Flaherty." There was something so hearty in the voice, and so kindly in the gleam of the Irishwoman's twinkling eyes, that Bet's overwrought heart was strangely stirred. She stooped down and kissed Mother Bunch on her forehead. "I trust you," she said; "you're a safeguard to me and the little lads."
I say you're in danger, an' it's only trustin' to me mark that by trustin' faithfully to me that you'll get out of it; an', plaise the fates, I hope that, before three mouths is over, we'll be both safe an' comfortable in America. Do you undherstand that? I had my dhrames, Rody; but if I had, there must be nobody but yourself and me to know them."
They say, indeed, that dhrames go by contriaries, but not always, to my own knowledge." "An' what was the dhrame about, Darby?" inquired Reillaghan's wife. "Why, ma'am, about some that I see on this hearth, well, an' in good health; may they long live to be so! Oxis Doxis Glorioxis Amin!" + + + "Blessed Virgin! Darby, sure it would be nothin' bad that's to happen? Would it, Darby?"
"Eh what where am I? Oh, Connor, darling, if you knew the dhrames I had I thought you wor on the scaffie; but thanks be to the Saver, it was only a dhrame!" "Nothing more, father, nothing more; but for God's sake, keep your mind aisy.
I dremt since I lay down not more than a couple of hours ago that I saw the Tobacco Box you were lookin' for, in the hands of " "Don't bother or vex me with your d d nonsense about dhrames," he replied, in a loud and excited voice. "The curse o' Heaven on all dhrames, an' every stuff o' the kind. Go to bed." He slapped the door violently after him as he spoke, and left her to her own meditations.
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