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It's better to come to the house of murnin' than the house of feastin', you know." "You may be thankful you've a house to cover you, Ann Perrine, an'" "Yes, I know. I'm resigned. But there's no affliction like death. Bone, open the gate for Mis' Browst. Them hasps is needin' mendin', as I've often said to Joseph, um!"
"You are dressed in black, sir, in murnin' for your wife. I have seen you go into Tom Brady's to give the sick creatures the rites of their Church. I give notice to Sir Robert Whitecraft that a priest is there; and my word to you, he and his hounds will soon be upon you.
I would go any length to sarve Charley Hanlon, but I care nothin' for him beyond an acquaintance, although I did like him a little, or I thought I did." "Poor Charley!" exclaimed Nelly, "he'll break his heart. Arra what'll he do for a piece o' black crape to get into murnin'? eh ha! ha! ha!"
"What bribe!" "Why, sir, he put his hand, under his apron sure he has a black silk apron on him now, jist for all the world like a big man cook, dressed out in murnin' he put his hand undher his apron, and wid a hitch got it into his breeches pocket 'here's a fifty pound note for you, says he, 'if you'll prosecute that wild priest there's no end to his larnin, says he, 'and I want to punish him for it; so, Darby, here's a fifty pound note, an' it'll be yours when the prosecution's over; and I'll bear all the expenses besides."
Again followed a brief silence. 'Eh, but isna it strange? said Marion. 'Here's you and me stanin murnin ower anither man's bairn, and naewise kennin what's come o' oor ain twa! Dauvid, what can hae come o' Steenie and Kirsty? 'The wull o' God's what's come o' them; and God hand me i' the grace o' wussin naething ither nor that same!
You see, I never expected it, as you did!" "Weel, ye are hertless, Jeernie!" exclaimed his father. "Hae ye nae spark o' fellow-feelin wi' yer ain mither, whan the lass comes to life 'at she's been fourteen days murnin for deid? But losh! she's aff again! deid or in a dwaum, I kenna! Is't possible she's gaein to slip frae oor hand yet?"
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