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The gist of them was that "If they took and grabbed the ould gintleman's bit of money, and he after dyin' all his lone up among them there, wid ne'er a one of his own folks near him to see he had his rights, it might look ugly enough agin them, and set some people passin' remarks he'd be long sorry to have made on him, or any of his name;" and that for the precluding of such animadversions it might behove them to provide "a buryin'" not merely decent but "very respectable whatever," and to expend the remainder of Mr.
And looking down she replied: "You told me not to ask and I haven't?" "Was it because you didn't want to know?" "Mebby I was almost dyin' to know, but you told me not to ask." "I didn't kill him because " "Not because you were afraid to try," she broke in. "No. It was because they told me that that you loved him." "What!" she cried, blazing at him, "I love that that skeer crow!
News got around somehow that your cousin was dyin' in Washington and that your weddin' was put off too Why! you look like a ghost, even in this light," and he turned up the lamp. Martine had told Nichol to stand by a window with his back to the door.
"Oh," he replied, "I am dyin' wid fair hunger wid fair hunger, an' I want something to ait;" and as he spoke, a spasm of agony came over his face.
"Curly," answered Tom, with scorn, "what you call your brains is only a oroide imitation of a dollar watch. Why, of course we can't write a letter and sign his name to it deliberate. That's forgery, and we'd get into the penitentiary for it. That ain't the way to do. "Now look here. Dan Anderson may be lookin' right well for a dyin' man, but he's on his death-bed just the same.
Mother av Hiven! how they cried, an' the ould she-god grinnin' above thim all so scornful! The dhrink was dyin' out in me fast, an' I was thinkin' harder than the thoughts wud go through my head thinkin' how to get out, an' all manner of nonsense as well.
"I believe you," replied Bland, at once. "Think I know when a fellow is lying." "I reckon you're on the right trail," put in Euchre. "Thet about Luke wantin' his boots took off thet satisfies me. Luke hed a mortal dread of dyin' with his boots on." At this sally the chief and his men laughed. "You said Duane Buck Duane?" queried Bland.
"How come you to think you was dyin' anyway?" asked the Bishop. "Hillard, you kno', Hillard the old man's been thinkin' he'd go sudden-like a long time." He raised his eyes to heaven: "Yes, Lord, thy servant is even ready." "Last night I felt a kind o' flutterin' of my heart an' I cudn't breathe good. I thought it was death death, Hillard, on the back of his pale horse.
"You may read a bit if ye like," responded McAravey, leaning back on the bed, quite satisfied now that the priest had been sent for; "only no controversy; it's not fit for a dyin' man or for any man, for the matter o' that." "No controversy!" said Hendrick, smiling; "well, will this suit you? 'Without controversy great is the mystery of godliness.
"In spite of Enright's faith it shore turns out this Mexican is ornery enough, where the trail skirts the river, to wheel sudden an' go plungin' across. But Jack gets him in midstream. As he goes over the bronco's shoulder, hat first, he swings on the bridle long enough with his dyin' hand to turn the pony so it comes out ag'in on our side.
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