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"Husth, arogorah!" exclaimed the mid-wife; "stop, I say the tree afore the fruit, all the world over; don't you know, an' bad win to you, that if the sthranger was to go to-morrow, as good might come afther him, while the paarent stocks are to the fore. The mother an' father first, acushla, an' thin the sthranger." "Many thanks to you, Mrs.
"May God in His mercy soon relieve you from your thrials, my poor girl, an' bring you to Himself! but it's the black news I have for you this day." Sarah started. "What news," she asked, hastily "what black news?" "Husth, now, an' I'll tell you; in the first place, your mother is alive, an' has come to the counthry."
Thry and shed tears; it 'ill take away this burning pain that's in your poor head; oh, thry and let down the tears, and you'll see how it 'ill relieve I you." "Mother, I can't," she replied; "I can shed no tears; I wish they were home, for I the worst couldn't be worse than this." "No, asthore, it couldn't it can't; husth! I do you hear it?
"What brought your husband to me, my good woman?" "Bhe dha husth; fag a rogarah lumsa." "He's comin' to it, plaise your reverence," said the wife.
The boy, whose noble fortitude was unshaken during the formidable trial it had encountered in the course of that day, now felt overcome by this simple allusion to his mother's love. He threw his arms about his father's neck, and, placing his head upon his bosom, wept aloud for many, many minutes. "Hiisth, Connor, husth, asthore what makes you cry?
At this moment a loud laugh, having something supernatural in it, rang out wildly from the darkness of the chapel; he stopped, and putting his open hand over his brows, peered down into the gloom, and said calmly in Irish, "Bee dhu husth; ha nih anam inh: hold your tongue, it is not yet time."
"We are, Honor, we are; there's not his aquil in the parish achora machree that he is. When I'm gone he'll know what I've done for him." "Whin you're gone; why, Saver of arth, sure you wouldn't keep him out of his husth! here he is, God be thanked! poor boy he's safe. Oh, thin, vich no Hoiah, Connor jewel, were you out undher this terrible night?"
Buckley, says he, 'what's the news? 'Be dhe husth, says I, 'before I sell you the chickens, let me ax is the Cooleen Bawn at home? 'She is, says he, lookin' me sharp and straight in the face; 'do you want her? 'I would like to see her, says I, 'for a minute or two. 'Ay, says he, back agin to me, 'you have a message and you know besides that she never buys chickens; that's my business. 'But, says I, back agin, 'I was tould by him that you were faithful, and could be depinded on. 'Ay, says he; 'but I thought he had left the counthry. 'Troth, then, says I, 'he's to the fore still, and won't lave the counthry till he sees her wanst more, at all events. 'Have you a letther? 'Betherahin, says I, 'could you let me see her; for he tould me to say to her that she is not, to indite letthers to him, for fraid of discovery. 'Well, says he, 'as the master's at home, I'll have some difficulty in spakin' to her.
Musha, Gad bless yer haner, an' maybe ye'd buy a slip of a pig fwhrom me, that has my heart bruck, so she has, if ever any body's heart was bruck wit the likes of her; an' sure so there was, no doubt, or I wouldn't be as I am wid her. I'll give her a dead bargain, sir; for it's only to get her aff av my hands I'm wanting plase yer haner husth amuck husth, a veehone!
"A girsha!" said Peggy, his fellow-servant, feeling the indignity just offered to her sex "Why thin, bad manners to your assurance for that same: a girsha's as well intitled to a full glass as a gorsoon, any day." "Husth a colleen," said Nogher, good humoredly, "sure, it's takin' pattern by sich a fine example you ought to be. This, Mrs.
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