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"Between Gus Burlingame and that M'Mahon bunch of horse-thieves, the stranger in a strange land 'll have to keep his eyes open, I'm thinkin'." "Divils me darlin', his eyes are open all right," returned Deely. "Still, I'd like to jog his elbow," Sibley answered reflectively. "It couldn't do any harm, and it might do good." Deely nodded good-naturedly.
We're not goin' to get a purty wife, whatever you may be." The reply to this was short, but pithy "May all the divils in hell's fire pull the tongue out o' you, for nothin' but hell itself, you villin, timpted me to bring you with me."
Beth struck him back promptly, and a scuffle ensued. "Oh, but it's little divils yez are, the lot of ye!" cried Kitty as she separated them. During fits of nervous irritability Captain Caldwell had a habit of pacing about the house for hours at a time.
His soul was filled with tragedy and terror. His Celtic imagination heard the ship blowing up, saw himself and the little dinghy blown to pieces nay, saw himself in hell, being toasted by "divils." But tragedy and terror could find no room for expression on his fortunate or unfortunate face.
Stories of Irish daring might be multiplied, but these are sufficient to show that the old regiments are still full of the fighting spirit. "Now boys," one of their non-commissioned officers is reported to have said, "no surrender for us! Ye've got yer rifles, and yer baynits, and yer butts, and after that, ye divils, there's yer fists."
Get that." "Our password's 'The Chinese Must Go." "How do you propose to accomplish this?" asked Stanley. "Aisy enough," returned the other with supreme confidence. "We'll have the treaty wid Chiny changed. We'll sind back all the yellow divils if they interfere wid us Americans." Stanley could not repress a smile. Kearney himself had been naturalized only a year before.
"Sorra a one av me knows then, Misthur Thady; only that the tenants is no good frinds to the Captain; nor why should they, an' he going through the counthry with a lot of idle blagguards, with arms, an' guns, sazin' the poor divils for nothin' at all, only for thryin' to make out the rint for yer honor, with a thrifle of potheen?
Crane, sayin' he'd recommend Dan McGaw to do the stevedorin' the sneakin' villain an' sayin' that he Duffy was a-goin' to inspect the coal himself, an' if his friend Dan McGaw hauled it, the quality would be all right. Think of that! I tell ye, Mr. Babcock, they're divils. Then Mr.
"You don't need to make my boys no offer," replied Pine slowly. "Those divils were after our hosses too; and they'd have got them if you hadn't come along. We'd been told by a man we believe that there wan't no Injuns in this country, or you wouldn't have seen us sleeping es close to our fire. Whar do you-all reckon to come up with them?" Our old trapper interposed.
If they're part of the bargain," and she shuddered at the thought "between you an' anything that's not good hem! I think you'd do well to throw thim off o' you, an' turn to thim that can protect you from everything that's bad. Now a scapular would keep all the divils in hell from one; an' if you'd" On looking at the stranger she hesitated, for the wild expression of her eyes began to return.
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