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This was an after-dinner party, partaking of the 'lavin's," Brown explained. "The real one was over an hour before." "Do tell us about it. Did you enjoy it? Won't you describe your guests?" Mrs. Brainard spoke eagerly. "With pleasure. The Kelceys are my next-door neighbours on the left. Mrs. Kelcey is pure gold in the rough.
The sixteen guests at the dinner, in spite of the generous supplies, had not left many "lavin's." The great turkey had little remaining now upon his bones and nothing at all inside of him; the potatoes and vegetables had been entirely consumed; of the pies there remained a solitary wedge. But Brown, smiling broadly, attended to these difficulties.
Quinn left behind." "I am not goin' to take her lavin's, then," retorted Roseen with spirit. "Neither her jew'lry, her dresses, nor her husband will I have, so there! That's my answer, an' you may tell him so. He may go make up his match with somebody else for me." With a whisk of her skirts and a stamp of her foot, she returned to her butter. "Come, come!" said Peter, knitting his brows.
The tent-ropes was all skew-nosed, an' the pegs looked as dhrunk as the men fifty av thim the scourin's, an' rinsin's, an' Divil's lavin's av the Ould Rig'mint. I tell you, sorr, they were dhrunker than any men you've ever seen in your mortial life. How does a draf' get dhrunk? How does a frog get fat? They suk ut in through their shkins.
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