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"Well, an' to be sure," Kitty answered, radiant as she rose from her defeats, "if you'll kape a cat that does n't know a mouse when she sees it, an' a dog that only barks for his livin', and a part that only squawks an' bites an' niver spakes a word, ye must be the best-hearted woman that's alive, an' bliss ye, if ye was only a good Catholic, the Holy Father 'd make a saint of ye in less than no time!"
"There will be no men in her house." "Can she kape thim out? She's only a wake craythur anyway." "Paulina," said her husband. She came forward and, taking his hand, kissed it, Mrs. Fitzpatrick looking on in disgust. "This woman asks can you keep the men out of your room," he said in Galician. "I will keep them out," she said simply. "Aye, but can she?" said Mrs.
I did not interfere until we were approaching our camping-ground, when I sent Patsey back, to say that I wished to see him. The boy returned, saying, "He's a-comin', but he says, kape yer timper." "What did he say?" inquired I, in no little astonishment. "He said, Yis, he'd come, but kape yer timper; shure, so he did." At this moment Hal rode up.
A heavier pallor was upon the face, a cold moisture upon the sunken brow when it was accomplished. "I'll kape on while I kin I don' know as I shall ha' the strength much longer, Dora." The child twitched her curls from the fingers that lay heavily upon them and turned on her mother fiercely. "Yu ha' got ter du 'em, then!" she cried. She glared upon the faint head slipped sideways on the pillow.
What's that but a drop in the bucket when your big magnates accumulate millions upon millions?" "Well, me bhoy," laughed Barney, with a comical twist of his mug, "tin thousand will do for a nist egg. Wid thot for a nist egg, we ought to hatch out enough to kape us from becomin' objects of charity in our ould age."
"I wint out again an' sat in the haggard, where I could kape my eye on the dure. Prisintly out comes one o' thim, to commince the row, I suppose. "He spoke o' the Land Lague, an' I towld him I didn't agree wid it at all, and 'twas a thievin' invintion o' a set o' roguish schamers. "'Ye'd betther mind yer manners, says he, 'onless ye have yer revalver, says he, lookin' at me maningly.
He was the only farmer in the country that would not sell or shoot a worn-out horse. "The poor brute has wurruked hard an' hez airned his kape for the rest av his days." So Duncan, Jerry and several others were "retired" and lived their latter days in idleness, in one case for more than ten years.
It is a horrible position to be placed in. Poor, poor Tom!" "Have ye had supper?" asked Flinders, quickly. "No I cannot eat." "Cook it then, an' don't be selfish. Other people can ait, though ye can't. It'll kape yer mind employed an I'll want somethin' to cheer me up whin I come back."
Like the rest o' them, he wint up to the post an' looked at it, but didn't touch it. Then he came to the pool an' tuk a dhrink, an' spread out his blanket, an' began to arrange matters for spendin' the rest o' the night there. Av coorse he pulled out his axe, for he couldn't do widout fire to kape the wild bastes off.
As I'm a man only wan half." "Go an to y'r condinsation, Coolin, fer the face uv ye's not fit fer dacint company, wan side paralytic wid lyin', an' the other struck simple wid tellin' the truth. An' see, Coolin, fer the warnin' she give ye fer me, the kit I lave is yours, an' what more, be the will uv God! An' what ye've told me ye'll kape to y'self, Coolin, or hell shall be your portion."
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