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"And where did ye drift from, darlint?" Mrs. Bunker bridled feebly at the epithet. "I didn't drift. I was going to the Fort." "The Fort, is it?" "Yes. I want to see the general." "Wadn't the liftenant do ye? Or shure there's the adjutant; he's a foine man." "Silence, Flanigan," said the young officer sharply. Then turning to Mrs.
Then they straightened their backs and stood squarely enough to make a very old soldier exclaim with delight, "Foine men, sorr, they'd be with me to dhrill 'um for a couple o' weeks." Poorly fed as the Orangemen were, their case was not nearly so hard as that of the military.
The dandy clerks, in high dickies and incipient whiskers, rushed to the doors and windows of their stores, to have a glimpse of the two beautiful unknowns; the mustachioed exquisites raised their eye-glasses in admiration, and murmured, 'dem foine, the charming Countess, the graceful Cad, and the bewitching Jane B t, were all on the qui vive to ascertain the names, quality and residence of the two fair strangers, who were likely to prove such formidable rivals in the hearts and purses of the lady-loving beaux of the city.
She's lookin' foine in her Sunday suit. Shrouds is gone out, Mem, they say." She went tipping over the floor to something white that lay on a board, a candle at the head, and drew off the sheet. A girl of fifteen, almost a child, lay underneath, dead, her lithe, delicate figure decked out in a dirty plaid skirt, and stained velvet bodice, her neck and arms bare.
You parliament gentlemen must hauve a vaust deal of trouble on your haunds very foine property I understaund yours is, sir. Sir, allow me to drink the health of your good lady!" "I thank you, Mr. , Mr. , what did you say your name was? I beg you a thousand pardons." "No offaunce in the least, sir; no ceremony with me this is perticler good madeira!" "May I ask how I can serve you?" said Mr.
I'll say to the Widow, 'Asthore, Take back your old pig, for I want it no more' "'An iligant pig in ivery way, Schwate Widow Mahan, plaze take it away. Faith, now it's full grown, just go to the fair, A mighty foine price you'll git for it there." "Yes," said Uncle Ike, "that's what the rich man will say.
Howsomever, knowing that he's in that haste to meet his bride, and would, no doubt, grudge so much as a day spent between here and there on the sand, I'll jist give him his chice; being who he is, and a foine gintleman, he has his right to it. As for you" the tone instantly slipped into insolent indifference "ye can go by one or the other with yer bags."
"Faith, he's drivin' his pigs to market in foine stoil; you should only hear him, cap'en!" answered the Irishman, looking out to windward. "Begorrah, ain't it blowin', though, sir! Sure, as we used to say at ould Trinity, de gustibus non est disputandum, which means, Mister Spokeshave, as yo're cockin' up your nose to hear what I'm after sayin', it's moighty gusty, an' there's no denyin' it!"
Master 'Arry," said he, "it's only now we are larnin' to live, although I did think, one time to-day, we was just larnin' to die. I never mean to eat again until I'm hungry. Master Terry," he added, turning to the young Irishman, "isn't this foine livin' intirely? and are yez not afther bein' happy?"
"Sure and he knows he's done foine, but he ain't been braggin' on himself much since he took to that, I've noticed. There's books of all sorts, so there is, some for wan thing and some for another, but it's the history book that cures the consate." "We're very busy up at our house," observed Andy. And the widow could scarcely bring herself to heed him. "Yes," went on Andy.
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