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"Now tell 'im to lay 'is hand on yer tired head in token that He's wi' ye in yer disthress!" Even to a dull intellect like Eliza's the suggestion was startling. "Wud He do it, Anna?" "Well, jist ask 'im an' then wait an' see!" In faltering tones Eliza made her request and waited. As gently as falls an autumn leaf Anna laid her hand on Eliza's head, held it there for a moment and removed it.
"Well, to be sure, they all stapt eating at wanst, and began to stare at me, and faith they almost looked me out of countenance, and I thought to myself, it was not good manners at all, more betoken from furriners which they call so mighty p'lite; but I never minded that, in regard o' wantin' the gridiron; and so says I, 'I beg your pardon, says I, 'for the liberty I take, but it's only bein' in disthress in regard of eating, says I, 'that I made bowld to throuble yez, and if you could lind me the loan of a gridiron, says I, 'I'd be entirely obleeged to ye.
"What does he know about it?" said Andy to himself; "'faith, it's fair and aisy I'll go, and not disthress the horse to plaze any one." So he went back his ten miles at a reasonable pace only; and when he appeared without the electors, a storm burst on poor Andy. "There! I knew how it would be," said he, "and not my fault at all." "Weren't you told not to return without them?"
"Well, sir, the ould chap began to munseer me; but the divil a bit of a gridiron he'd gi' me; and so I began to think they wor all neygars, for all their fine manners; and, throth, my blood begun to rise, and says I, 'By my sowl, if it was you was in disthress, says I, 'and if it was to ould Ireland you kem, it's not only the gridiron they'd give you, if you axed it, but something to put an it, too, and the drop o' dhrink into the bargain, and cead mile failte.
"Never mind, sir, don't let that disthress you; it's a good, man's case, sir. Did you thravel far, wid submission? I spake in kindness, sir." "Why, yes, a a pretty good distance; but about Mr. Lindsay and " "Yes, sir; crossed over, sir, I suppose? I mane from the other side?" "O! you want to know if I crossed the Channel?" "Had you a pleasant passage, sir?" "Yes, tolerable." "Thank God!
But the waiver bein' an his neck was a great disthress to him, and he would rather have had him an inside passenger; but, anyway, he flew and he flew till he kem slap up agin the palace o' the king; for, bein' blind with the rage, he never seen it, and he knocked his brains out that is, the small thrifle he had and down he fell spacheless.
But we've got somethin', an' that is a heart that milts at the soight av beauty in disthress." "Oh, sire," said Mrs. Russell, "spare him!" "His Majesty" took her hand, pressed it, and held it in his. "Dearest cousin," said he, "ye ax impossibilities. Law is an' must be shuprame. Even now the coort is deciding.
"Oh, Jenny," I said, "how shall I be able to ask her to accept provisions from strangers? I am afraid of wounding her feelings." "Oh, darlint, never fear that! She is proud, I know; but 'tis not a stiff pride, but jist enough to consale her disthress from her ignorant English neighbours, who think so manely of poor folk like her who were once rich.
She is proud, I know; but 'tis not a stiff pride, but jist enough to consale her disthress from her ignorant English neighbours, who think so manely of poor folk like her who were once rich. She will be very thankful to you for your kindness, for she has not experienced much of it from the Dummer people in her throuble, though she may have no words to tell you so.
But I never minded that, in regard o' wantin' the gridiron; and so says I, 'I beg your pardon, says I, 'for the liberty I take, but it's only bein' in disthress in regard of ating, says I, 'that I made bowld to throuble yez, and if you could lind me the loan of a gridiron, says I, 'I'd be intirely obleeged to ye.
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