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"It was your schaming to get her money brought her here, and, like a poor wake woman, as I was, I fell into it; and now we've all the throuble and the expinse, and the time lost, and afther all, Barry'll be getting everything when she's gone. You'll see, Martin; we'll have the wake, and the funeral, and the docthor and all, on us mind my words else. Och musha, musha! what'll I do at all?
Before I had time to utter a prayer for our safety, we were through and fairly upon the high road. "Musha, but the master's mad!" cried the old dame of the gate-lodge; "he wasn't out of this gate for a year and a half, and look now " The rest was lost in the clear ringing laugh of Baby, who clapped her hands in ecstasy and delight. "What a spanking pair they are!
"Is it dhraming I've been?" continued the awakened one. "Where am I at all, at all? O musha! sure, here I am. O wirra! wirra! I dreamt I'd gone aslape on the main-hatch and the ship was blown up with powther, and it's all come true." "What is it, honey?" "Where are we now?" "Sure, we're afloat on the say, acushla; where else would we be?" "Where's uncle?"
"Musha, have sinse, man alive," replied the wife, in a tone of placid gravity, which only betrayed the pleasure she herself felt in his happiness. "Have sinse, an' the strange man comin' in, an' don't let him see you in such figaries." The observation of the good woman produced a loud laugh among them. "Arrah what are yez laughing at?" she inquired.
"Musha, Peter, but it's well y'r looking," cried one. "Ah, thin, maybe ye an't fat on the ribs," cried another. "An' cockin' his tail like a coult," said a third. I am very certain, if I might venture to judge from the faces about, that, had the favourite for the St. Leger, passed through Kilkee at that moment, comparisons very little to his favor had been drawn from the assemblage around me.
"Oh, in course he may," said Barney; "oh musha, musha, wirrasthrue, how'd I ever be looking the misthress and the young ladies in the face, av I was taking him home dead and buried as he's likely to be, av he don't hit that owld masther of yours in the very first go off;" and then the man's air of triumph at the idea of his master's shooting Jonas Brown, turned to despondency as the thought struck him that the Counsellor might be shot himself.
"Yes." "Are they mad?" "They've given us the worst job, not merely as a job, but especially for the regiment. Perhaps they won't mind if things do go wrong." "Yez mean?" "What will people say of me on November fourth, if my regiment flunks on September thirtieth?" "Arrah musha dillah!" cried Dennis. "An' is that it?" "I'm afraid so. Will the men stand by me?" "Oi'll make them.
Musha sure Norah and meself was sayin' on'y on Saturday night that there wasn't many stookawns like me had fathers to be bringin' them home shillin's every week as regular as the clock, and givin' prisints to the childer, and all manner. There's little Maggie frettin' woful to be missin' you out of it.
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!
"Musha! I've seed it chaiper." "I guess so have I; but provisions are gittin' up, for nothin' has come from Sacramento for a fortnight." "Tay an' sugar'll be as bad, no doubt!" "Wuss, they are; for there's next to none at all, I opine, in this here location." "Faix, I'll have a pound o' both, av they wos two dollars the half-ounce. Have ye got raisins an' sago?" "Yes."
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