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Sergeant Slavin was wont to remark sagely: "'Tis an ould saying bhoys 'Murdher will out' we'll sure dhrop onto it sooner or lather, an' thin belike we'll get th' surprise av our lives for I firmly believe, as Kilbride said 't'will prove tu be some lokil man who had a grudge agin' pore Larry for somethin' or another. So just kape on quietly watchin' an' listh'nin, an' we'll nail that fella yet."
It is considered by the people a safeguard against evil both spiritual and physical. "Isn't it the same thing, Eman," replied Owen, "if I shake the holy water on you, and whoever goes wid you? sure you know that if only one dhrop of it touched you, the devil himself couldn't harm you!" "And what needs yourself be afraid, then," retorted Eman; "and you has the Scapular on you to the back of that?
Prisoner number one kneeled at the rail and insisted on exposing the place in her head from which the hair had been plucked; upon which prisoner number two promptly tore off her hat, scattered hairpins to the four winds, and exposed her own wounds to the judicial eye. Both prisoners 'had a dhrop taken' just before the affair; that soft impeachment they could not deny.
"'Don't you know, said Mick, 'that priest Dannelly cured Bob Beaty of the falling sickness until he broke the vow that was laid upon him, of not going into a church, and the minute he crossed the church-door, didn't he dhrop down as bad as ever and what could the minister do for him?
"The devil a taste mad, my dear I'm only sick. Now just come over to me, like a decent creature, and give me the dhrop of comfort ye have. Come, avick." "Go over to you?" "Ay, and why not? or if it's so lazy ye are, why then I'll thry and cross over to your side." These words being accompanied by a certain indication of change of residence on the part of Mrs.
Wan toot out av it means a ton av coal gone to hell an' a dhrop av blood out av the owner's heart! An' from that time on the best I iver hearrd out av that whistle was a sick sort av a sob." Matt laughed as Terence Reardon's natural propensity for romancing came to the front.
Mother's milk's a thrifle to it." "Well, if I take this, Phelim, I'll not touch another dhrop to-night. In the mane time here's whatever's best for us! Whoo! Oh, my! but that's strong! I dunna how the people can dhrink so much of it!" "Faith, nor me; except bekase they have a regard for it, an' that it's worth havin' a regard for, jist like yourself an' me.
With a quick instinct she caught up her gun and ran to that one, but not before a rapid scramble near the railing was followed by a cautious opening of the door. She was just in time to shut it on the extended arm and light blue sleeve of an army overcoat that protruded through the opening, and for a moment threw her whole weight against it. "A dhrop of whiskey, Miss, for the love of God."
His cousin by marriage crawled to the fence and sat up, without replying. "I've the flask in me pouch, Owen." "Kape it there." "But sure if ye foight wid me ye'll dhrink wid me?" "I'll not dhrink a dhrop wid ye." The cobbler panted heavily. "The loikes of you that do be goin' to marry on a Frinch quarther-brade, desavin' her, and the father and the mother and the praste, that you do be a widdy."
'If it was the last word I ever spoke, Puddock, you're a good-natured he's a gentleman, Sir and it was all my own fault; he warned me, he did, again' swallyin' a dhrop of it remember what I'm saying, doctor 'twas I that done it; I was always a botch, Puddock, an' a fool; and and gentlemen good-bye.
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