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"No," Anna said quietly. "Th' hard times play'd th' divil wi' it before it was born, I'll be bound," said a second. A third averred that the child was "the very spit out of its father's mouth." Ghost stories, stories of the famine, of hard luck, of hunger, of pain and the thousand and one aspects of social and personal sorrow had the changes rung on them. Anna sat in the corner.
'Save you kindly, answered the greyhound leaving out God, the beast, bekase he was the divil. Christ defend us from ever seeing the likes o' him. 'Musha, Paddy M'Dermid, said he, 'what would you be looking after in that grave of a hole you're diggin' there? 'Faith, nothing at all, at all, answered Paddy; bekase you see he didn't like the stranger.
And an old man caught up the little body, and held it high over his head, shouting, "Boys, boys look yous at that. There's the way Henderson's cartin' off the childer's bit of food to make his fine fortin in England." And the crowd shouted back through a surge of curses: "Divil a fut will he this day."
"O'Hara was a Divil. Though I saved him, for the honor av the rig'mint, from his death that time, I say it now. He was a Divil a long, bould, black-haired Divil." "Which way?" asked Ortheris, "Women." "Then I know another." "Not more than in reason, if you mane me, ye warped walkin'-shtick. I have been young, an' for why should I not have tuk what I cud?
O'Rourke, for he addressed that gentleman as "a spalpeen," and told him to go home. "Divil an inch," replied the spalpeen; but he got himself off the threshold, and returned his position on the step.
"Young man, the spirit of the Lord is mighty, and cometh like a strong wind on the four corners of the house." "Then why in the divil did ye blame me for it?" was the answer. "Oh, son of Belial! Hell fire and eternal damnation, a portion in the pit that burneth with fire, is the lot of those that desecrate the sanctuary of the Most High.
If ye want the truth, y'r anner, them two young people have had words together and plenty of them, whether it's across the hall her room from his; or in his room; or through the windy or down the chimney-shure, I don't care! They've spoke. There's that between them wants watchin'. Not that there's wrong in aither of them divil a bit! I've got me own mind about Mr. Orlando Giggles.
Stan' quiet, you young divil you, an' lemme button you up!" Clean as lily-bells, the pair were laid on the mattress-bed. "At least they can't fall out," said Polly, surveying her work with a sigh of content. Every one else having retired, she sat with Richard before the fire, waiting for his bath-water to reach the boil.
'A dhirty man, he was used to say, in the speech of his kind, 'goes to Clink for a weakness in the knees, an' is coort-martialled for a pair av socks missin'; but a clane man, such as is an ornament to his service a man whose buttons are gold, whose coat is wax upon him, an' whose 'coutrements are widout a speck THAT man may, spakin' in reason, do fwhat he likes an' dhrink from day to divil.
"'Money, sez they, fur thayer was talk all round thin that Oi had sold me cow fur $25. "'Sure, thin, Oi'll get up an' help ye, sez Oi, fur divil a cint hev Oi been able to set me eyes on sense apple harvest." "We want $25, or we'll kill ye.
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