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"Kimberley or Timbuctoo, what's it matter to the like of you? A man's coming up in the morning to bid you good-bye before an early sailing, and you're thinking of nothing but your capers and divilments." "It's you to know what a girl's thinking, isn't it, Mr. Pete? And why are you flying in my face for a word?" "Flying? I'm not flying. It's driven I am." "Driven, Pete?"
And you'd start to chase him, an' then it'd be main-sail haul, and away he'd go, you behint him, till you'd landed tail over snout in a ditch, an' he'd be back in the cupboard." "He was a Troll," murmured the Dutch voice. "I'm tellin' you he was a Leprachaun, and there's no knowin' the divilments he'd be up to.
What did he come there for, 'moiderin 'Lias wi his divilments'? If he ever said a word of such things again, she'd lock the door on him, and he might go to Jenny Crum for his tea. Not a bite or a sup should he ever have in her house again. 'I meant no harm, said the boy doggedly. 'It wor he towd me about t' witch it wor he as put it into our yeds Louie an me. Margaret exclaimed.
Ancrum had set him thinking, and so stirred his conscience in various indirect and unforeseen ways, Sandy had been a terror to him; the dead man had gained a mysterious hold on the living. 'Roon away! repeated Hannah scornfully; 'whar ud they roon to? They're just at soom o' their divilments, 'at's what they are.
"And there was Father McBreen," he resumed, with a chuckle "'sure the mark of Satan is on the b'y, he used to say every time my mother told him of one of my divilments. And he was right. All the same, I'd like to drop in on him and surprise him with a check" at the moment he forgot that he was old and a cripple "just to let him know the divil hadn't claimed me yet. I'd like to show him me wife."
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