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She began forthwith to scream out to the coachman to stop; but the man only whipped the horses the faster for her noise, and bade her Ladyship 'hould on 'twas a short cut he was taking.
"Keep close to me, lad," whispered the Irishman. "If we separate in the darkness we'll niver foregather again. Catch hould o' my shoulder if ye get blowed, and splutter as much as ye like. They can't hear us now, and it'll help to frighten the sharks." "All right," replied Martin; "I can swim like a cork in such warm water as this. Just go a little slower and I'll do famously."
The mill-wheel was going same as a "whirlingig" was there nobody to "hould the brake?" The stable roof was stripped, and the mare was tearing herself to pieces in a roaring "pit of hell" was there never a shoulder for the door? Only when Cæsar had been pacified was there silence to speak of Kate.
Whin he takes it, sorr, jist let him run away wid it as far as he likes, but the minit he turns to swallow it, an' says to himself, 'What an illigant breakfast this is, to be sure! that minit slap the hook into his jaw, an' hould on to him for dear life." These excellent instructions I obeyed with no little difficulty.
"Why not?" asked Dan, for he knew that he was the light of poor Aunt Win's eyes and the joy of her old heart. "Hurt and hinder me!" echoed Dan, who, with all his cleverness, could not understand the depths and heights of good old Aunt Winnie's love. "Aye, lad, hurt and hinder ye; for ye're on the way up, and I'll not be the one to hould ye back.
And then, all being gone and the long strain over, Pete snatched the puling child out of Nancy's arms, and kissed it and wept over it. "Give her to me, the bogh," he cried, hoarse as a raven, and then sat on the stool before the fire, and rocked the little one and himself together. "If I hadn't something innocent to lay hould of I should be going mad, that I should. Oh, Katherine bogh!
"Is she tired, or doesn't she ever go any better?" urged Salemina. "She does; it's God's truth I'm tellin' ye, melady, she's that flippant sometimes that I scarcely can hould her, and the car jumps undher her like a spring bed." "Then what on earth IS the matter with her?" I inquired, with some fire in my eye.
For nearly two years, a day has hardly passed that my family hasn't wrung the burnin' tears from my eyes on your account. Haven't I refused matches that any young woman in my station of life ought to be I proud to accept?" "You did, Ellen, you did; but still I know how hard it is for you to hould out against the persecution you suffer at home.
Hould yer hat, Martin; there's more nor enough for supper anyhow," As he spoke a rustling in the leaves told that monkeys were watching us, and Marmoset kept peeping up as if she half expected they might be relations. But the moment the travellers caught sight of them they bounded away screaming.
"Hould your tongue, jewel," drolled the little junior, who delighted in exaggerating the brogue that tripped naturally off his Irish tongue.
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