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"Mavrone!" exclaimed Hourigan, "acts of Parliament! oh! thin many a bitther piece of cruelty and injustice has been practised upon us by Act o' Parliament!" "Ho, you traisonable villain!" exclaimed the other "what sedition is this?"
"Mavrone, oh! blessed Lord forgive me well I can hardly think so didn't he volunteer along wid yourself an' myself oh, sweet Jasus! what a life I lead oh, Mark Ratigan, Mark Ratigan, what will become o' me! -I swore away the lives of two innocent men I proved three alibis for three of as black villains as ever stretched a rope or charged a blunderbush!
But, Fergus, I have something to mention, that will take a, start out of you. I have been discharged by the squire from his family, and mavrone, oh! I can now be of no service to the Cooleen Bawn." "Discharged!" replied Fergus with astonishment; "why, how did that come? But I suppose I needn't ask some of the mad old Squire's tantrums, I suppose? And what did the Cooleen Bawn herself say?"
Andy hesitated, as if on the brink of a painful theme, and resumed with an effort: "He's bought Magpie and the two two-year-olds off of Peter Martin. Chape enough he got them, too, though he had to give ten shillin's a head more for them than Martin ped me." "Mavrone, but some people have the luck," said Mrs. Joyce.
Oh! oh! milia murther! I'm not able to get on my legs. Give me your hand, Jerry oh! oh! well, well what's this at all? Jerry, achora, don't desart me now, 'an me in the state you see. I'll never get home by myself that's what I won't mavrone, oh! what's this? I'm fairly kilt."
"Sure you'll pay me! mavrone, but it's often you've said that afore, and divil a cross o' Your coin ever we seen yet; faith, it's you that's heavily in my debt, when I think of all ever you promised to pay me." "Very well, then; no meal, no answer." "And will you give me an answer if I give you the meal?" "Honor bright, didn't I say it."
There's Misther Robert med an iligant shute o' canvas for the summer; an' Misther Arthur is powerful at boots; an' sorra bit but Miss Linda spins yarn first-rate, considherin' she never held a distaff before. An' the darlin' Missus knits stockins; oh mavrone, but she's the beautiful sweet lady intirely, that ought to be sitting in her carriage!
'Twas murmur we did for a gallus potion would rouse a friar, I'm thinking, and he limp with leching. And we one hour and two hours and three hours in Connery's sitting civil waiting for pints apiece. He wailed: And we to be there, mavrone, and you to be unbeknownst sending us your conglomerations the way we to have our tongues out a yard long like the drouthy clerics do be fainting for a pussful.
At one end Father Corrigan sat, with Mary and myself, and Father James at the other. There were three five-gallon kegs of whiskey, and I ordered my brother to take charge of them; and there he sat beside them, and filled the bottles as they were wanted bekase, if he had left that job to strangers, many a spalpeen there would make away with lots of it. Mavrone, such a sight as the dinner was!
Only an occasional vernacular ejaculation, such as 'Oh, wirra! wirra! or, 'Och hone, mavrone! betokened the smouldering remains of emotion in the frieze coats and gaudy shawls assembled for'ard: the wisest of the party were arranging their goods and chattels 'tween-decks, where they must encamp for a month or more; but the majority, with truly Celtic improvidence, will wait till they are turned down at nightfall, and have a general scramble in the dusk.
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