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Yes, but I can though: since you drive me to the wall, I must say no, and I do say no. And, dang it, I would have been hanged almost as soon as say so much to a father. I beg your pardon, sir, but my heart is given to another. Good evening to you. Christy. Gilbert? Gilb. Never. Christy.
Gilbert, you do not know Sir William Hamden. Gilb. Thank you, sir, but I do and I should be main sorry to leave you, that's sartin, if it was even to be landlord of the best inn in all England I know I should. Sir W. I believe it. But, stay let us understand one another I am not talking of England, and perhaps you are not thinking of Ireland. Gilb. Yes, sir, but I am. Sir W. You are!
Sir W. So, Gilbert, you will settle in Ireland at last? I am heartily glad to see you have overcome your prejudices against this country. How has this been brought about? Gilb. Why, sir, the thing was, I didn't know nothing about it, and there was a many lies told backwards and forwards of Ireland, by a many that ought to have known better.
There is no harm, but sometimes a great deal of good done by laughing, especially in Ireland. Laughing has mended, or caused to be mended, many things that never would have been mended otherwise. Gilb. Sir W. Now, Gilbert, if you were to keep an inn, it would be a very different sort of inn from what you have been describing would not it? Gilb. I hope so, sir.
I thought she seemed to smile upon you, Gilbert. Gilb. Sir W. I don't mean, my good Gilbert, to press you to say any thing that you don't choose to say. It was not from idle curiosity that I asked any questions, but from a sincere desire to serve you in whatever way you like best, Gilbert. Gilb. Oh, dear master! I can't speak, you are so good to me, and always was too good! so I say nothing.
And moreover, there's holes over head through the roof, sir; so that if it rains, it can't but pour on the bed. They tell me, they used for to shift the bed from one place to another, to find, as they say, the dry corner; but now the floor is grown so crazy, they dare not stir the bed for their lives. Sir W. Worse and worse! Gilb.
Some ladies than peacocks are twenty times prouder, Some ladies than thunder are twenty times louder; But I'll have a wife that's obliging and civil For me, your fine ladies may go to the devil! Christy. Ferrinafad! Gilb. Miss G. Father, go your ways back to your punch. Christy. Mr. H. Miss Gallagher's health, and a gude husband to her, and soon. Miss G. And soon!
And what quarrel had you to Rose Dermod? says I. None in life, sir, says he; but Peggy McGrath had two cows, and Rose Dermod had but the one, and in my mind there is not the differ of a cow betwix' one woman and another. Do you understand me now, Mr. Gilbert? Gilb. Sir, we shall never understand one another pray let me go, before I get into a passion. Christy. Hollo! Hollo! Mr. Gilbert!
So to my Lord again, who was almost ready to be gone and had staid for me. Hither came Gilb. Holland, and brought me a stick rapier and Shelston a sugar-loaf, and had brought his wife who he said was a very pretty woman to the Ship tavern hard by for me to see but I could not go. Young Reeve also brought me a little perspective glass which I bought for my Lord, it cost me 8s.
Does he expect tea can be keeping hot for him to the end of time? He'll have nothing but slop-dash, though he's a very genteel man. I'm partial to the military school, I own, and a High lander too is always my white-headed boy. Gilb. Now, if I was to be hanged for it, I don't know what that means. Miss G. Now where can you have lived, Mr. Gilbert, not to know that? Christy.
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