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"You won't forget me?" retorted Bremner. "Never," replied Dumsby, with fervour. "Av the beacon should be carried away, darlin'," cried O'Connor, "howld tight to the provision-chest, p'raps ye'll be washed ashore." "I'll drink your health in water, Paddy," replied Bremner. "Faix, I hope it won't be salt wather," retorted Ned.
"He's my cousin," hard tugging at the dead bodies with one arm; the other hung powerless. "I can't face Mary an' her childher agin an' say I lift her man widout Christian burial. Howld yer sowl! Dan Reilly, give us a lift; here he is. Are ye dead, Pat?" One eye in the blackened face opened. "On'y my leg.
"Ye've got stirrin' times of it here intirely. Mister Ally Babby," said the tar, whose familiarity almost verged on impudence; "what betwane you an' the 40,000 thieves more or less in the town, I find it rare entertainment." "Yoos complimentary dis marnin'," returned the interpreter, with a smile. "It's always the way with me. I howld that purliteness is chape. Ye've heard the noos, I s'pose?"
The camp'll be attacked in five minits more or less. I chanced to overhear the blackguards. Their chief comes here to set Muster Brixton free. Then och! here he comes! Do as I bid ye, ivery wan, an' howld yer tongues." The latter words were said energetically, but in a low whisper, for footsteps were heard outside as if approaching stealthily.
He knighted Phipps, who thus became the founder of the house of Mulgrave now represented by the Marquis of Normanby. When Miss Pritty had concluded the letter, Joe Baldwin turned to Rooney Machowl: "What think you, lad," he said, "would you venture down to twenty fathom?" "To twenty thousand fathom, if you'll consint to watch the pumps and howld the life-line," replied the daring son of Erin.
He ate the food with great relish, while the watchman stood by and looked on approvingly. When the meal was finished, Ralph said: "Now, I'll be a-goin'. I can't never thank you enough. Maybe I can do sumpthin' for you, some time, but " "Howld your tongue, now! Didn't I tell ye not to shpake of it?" The boy opened the door and looked out upon the dawning day. "Ain't it nice!" he said.
"Come on, Moriarty," said I, rising; "I must take a bit off the near end of my journey to-night." "Howld your howlt, chaps," interposed the good-natured half-caste "I'll run up your horses for you. I was on'y takin' a rise out o' Mr. And in another minute, he was striding down the paddock, with his bridle and stockwhip.
Let Joe Binney speak, and the rest of 'ee howld yer tongues, if ye can." Thus invited, modest Joe gave it as his opinion that the emigrants could not do better than follow the advice of Muster Malines go below, turn in, and wait till daylight. He added further that he would count it a favour if Muster Malines would continue in command of the party, at least till they all got ashore.
"Ed McGowan, ye're very kind, but spakin' is not my stronghowld; but let me be afther tellin' yez I kin howld me own wid the best of 'em, no matter where they're from, in the line of a bit of dancin'," and O'Hara stepped out on the floor and illustrated his story with a few fancy steps of an Irish jig which made an instantaneous hit with the crowd.
"Bring me my jacket," he said, "an' lay it o'er my face. Theer's a bit o' a posie in th' button-hole. I getten it out o' th' missus's garden when I comn away. I'd like to howld it i' my hand if it's theer yet."
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