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"Ah!" said the archdeacon, "a crucible for alchemy." "I will confess to you," continued Master Jacques, with his timid and awkward smile, "that I have tried it over the furnace, but I have succeeded no better than with my own." The archdeacon began an examination of the vessel. "What has he engraved on his crucible? Och! och! the word which expels fleas! That Marc Cenaine is an ignoramus!
"Och, sure your reverence knows very well how to give it." "Shall I give it in Irish?" "Och, no, your reverence a blessing in Irish is no blessing at all." "In English?" "Och, murder, no, your reverence, God preserve us all from an English blessing!" "In Latin?" "Yes, sure, your reverence; in what else should you bless us but in holy Latin?" "Well then prepare yourselves."
The two boats had not left the Pharos twenty yards astern, when Joe Dumsby cried, "Ho! boys, let's have a race." "Hooray!" shouted O'Connor, whose elastic spirits were always equal to anything, "an' sure Ruby will sing us `The girl we've left behind us. Och! an' there she is, av I'm not draymin'." At that moment a little hand was waved from one of the ports of the floating light.
Now, Dinny, let us have a hate at histhory." "A hate at histhory? wid all my heart; but before we begin, I tell you that I'll confound you precipitately; for you see, if you bate me in the English, I'll scarify you wid Latin, and give you a bang or two of Greek into the bargain. Och!
"Nora, had we better go tonight?" said Biddy. She had as little fear as her friend, but even she did not contemplate with pleasure a wild storm in the midst of the Atlantic. The man Neil looked gravely round. "Och! good luck to ye now, young ladies; don't be kaping me waiting after the botheration of coming to fetch yez. Come along, and be quick about it." "To be sure," said Nora.
As for Larry O'Hale, he fell on his knees, and, with characteristic enthusiasm, kissed the ground. "My best blissin's on ye," said he with emotion. "Och, whither ye be a coral island or a granite wan no matter; good luck to the insict that made ye, is the prayer of Larry O'Hale!"
"Och, well," confessed Mrs. Wackernagel, "I just keep astin' him will he have more, so I can hear him speak his manners so nice." She laughed aloud at her own vanity. "You took notice of it too, Tillie, ain't? You can't eat fur lookin' at him!" A tide of color swept Tillie's face as the teacher, with a look of amusement, turned his eyes toward her end of the table.
"Some one brought a lamp, and we peeped anxiously down, to see our own stupid Biddy sitting in the tub wringing her hands and wailing dismally. "'Och, murther, and it 's kilt I am!
Frank but then again, I don't like anything like desate, or that carries two faces only as you did see him, Miss Julia, if you're loyal to me and won't turn traitor on me you've but to wait for a little, I'll be able to tell you more about the same foolish I'd rather say foolish for the sake of settin' a Christian pat-thern, than wicked or traicherous och, ay for sure we all have our failins howandiver as I was sayin', I'll soon be able, I think, to tell you more about him things that will surprise you, miss, ay, and make the blood in your veins run cowld.
"You'd better come an' try for yourself," he replied, and then he led her up to Marsh and told him that a new pupil had come to join the class. There was some awkwardness about names.... "Och, I never told you my name," she said, laughing as she spoke. "Sheila Morgan!" she continued. "I live in County Down, but I'm stayin' with my uncle Matthew," she explained to Marsh.
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