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"Search me if ye loike," growled McCarthy, resentfully. "Oi wasn't there but a minute; the lady herself can tell ye that." Katie, the chambermaid, flushed painfully, and there were indignant tears in her eyes, which, I'll tell you in confidence, made a girl named Nancy uncomfortable. But the boy Nat; knowing that bell-boys have no rights, said nothing. But he thought.
"Trade's been fine, sir, an' Oi want to pay something for what yez did." So Peter left his two hundred and fifty dollars in the bank, having recouped the expenses of the first case out of his new client. He wrote all about it to his mother: "I am afraid you won't approve of what I did entirely, for I know your strong feeling against men who make and sell liquor.
Kit, the one sailor aboard, here on his own element, wished to lord it out alone. "How d'you feel, Blob?" he called, hoping for the best. "Whoy," said Blob, the breeze in his teeth, "Oi'm that empty Oi can hear me innuds rollin. Oi could just fancy a loomp o porruk fatty-loike." The Parson raised himself. "Swine," he moaned, "have you no soul?" He turned on his elbow.
They've not bin runnin' in the mill for several days, and've carted off ivery bit of the male they ground. We're nigh starved oursilves, but we've had a lovely little foight, and we forgive ye's for not coming airlier. Oi wouldn't 've missed that last rush on thim divil's for a month's double rations."
Dupont the fellar is here waitin'. Hold on now, not so fast; wait till Oi 'm done tellin' yer. Say thet to her alone do yer moind thet, ye sap-head; nobody else is to hear whut yer say; stay there till yer git a chance ter whisper it to her. Now skip." Hamlin hesitated, watching the boy disappear. "At the Palace the dance hall across the street?" he asked incredulously.
"Be the powers, sor," exclaimed Mick Donovan, at once executing a caper which had some remote resemblance to an Irish jig, "it's deloighted Oi am at that same! Oi fale so glad, alannah, Oi could dance for joy, loike the piper that played before Moses!" "What d'you mean?" retorted Reeks, thinking he was taking liberties with his name. "We don't have no Irish pipers or pigs in this country!"
Then oi will bring ee up some blankets from our house, and if there bain't enough Polly will lend me some when oi tell her who they are for. She bain't a one to blab. What dost thou say?" Ned, who felt utterly worn out, assented gladly to the proposal, and an entrance was easily effected into the desolate cottage formerly used as a day school.
"Ye've made a bad shtar-rt wid um," he said, shaking his head. "Ye eyed 'im down in th' grub-shack, an' he hates ye fer ut. How ye got by wid ut Oi don't know, fer he's a scr-rapper from away back, an' av he'd sailed into ye Oi'm thinkin' he'd knocked th' divil out av ye, fer he's had experience, which ye ain't. But he didn't dast to, an' he knows ut, an' he knows that the men knows ut.
Cos found the outer door of Strong's chambers opened, and began to thunder at the knocker. After many and fierce knocks, the inner door was partially unclosed, and Strong's head appeared. "It's oi, me boy. Hwhat's that noise, Sthrong?" asked Costigan.
"Did you see or hear anything unusual going on while you were in the kitchen?" The Irish girl scratched her head and shrugged her shoulders. "Oi heard a lot av things, yer honor." "What were they?" "Oi heard Mrs. Langmore walkin' around upstairs, an' Oi heard Miss Margaret walkin' around, too. Then Oi heard Mrs. Langmore call to Miss Margaret." "Did Miss Margaret answer?"
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