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"'Divil sweep the ould custom, says my father to himself, do ye mind, for he didn't like to let Lawrence see that he was more afeard himself. "'Oh, very well, says he. 'I'm agreeable, Lawrence, says he; and so down they both went to the kitchen, until the fire id be lit in the parlour an' that same wasn't long doin'.
Poor Sally, sad and sorrowful, was thinking of all their ould quarrels, and taking the blame all to herself for not bein' more attentive to her business, and more kind to Larry; and when she thought of the way she thrated him, and the ill-tongue she used to give him, the tears began to roll from her eyes, and she rocked herself from side to side, sobbing as if her heart would brake.
"A trifle more than your six feet, about your colour of hair and eyes, and with a trick of smilin' that would melt the heart of an exciseman, and O'Connell's own at a joke, barrin' a time or two that he got hold of a pile of papers from the ould country. By the grave of St. Shon! thin he was as dry of fun as a piece of blotting paper.
"Ay, that is a great part of it, whatever." "Och! me hea-art is broke, me hea-art is broke," groaned Ould Michael. "Hoots, man! is it for the p'stoffice? That was not much worth to any man." But Ould Michael only shook his head. It was hopeless to try to make such a man appreciate his feelings. McFarquhar rambled on, making light of the whole affair. The loss could only be very trifling.
I now come to tell you what we all think of you in this country, and what I believe some of us has tould you already that you may go to hell for your tithe, and make the divil your paymaster, what he'll be yet. We will pay you none, and we set you and your upstart ould rogue of a father, with the law, the polis, and the army, all at defiance. I don't choose to say more, but I could if I liked."
'Mutinous, obstinate dog! cried the captain. 'What ails you then? Why have you a face like an underwriter in a tempest? 'If it plaize you, zur, the prisoner answered, 'Oi do but think o' m' ould mother at Wellington, and woonder who will kape her now that Oi'm gone! 'And what is that to me? shouted the brutal seaman.
An', by the Holy Articles av War, whin they wint aboard they cheered him till they cudn't spake, an' that, mark you, has not come about wid a draf in the mim'ry av livin' man! You look to that little orf'cer bhoy. He has bowils. 'Tis not ivry child that wud chuck the Rig'lations to Flanders an' stretch Peg Barney on a wink from a brokin an' dilapidated ould carkiss like mesilf.
An' so he tuck up with bone-setting, as was most nathural, for none of them could come up to him in mendin' the leg iv a stool or a table; an' sure, there never was a bone-setter got so much custom man an' child, young an' ould there never was such breakin' and mendin' of bones known in the memory of man.
We did him the favour of writing out a few, taking all the villages one was interested in in the "Ould Countrie," for which attention he seemed much obliged, and has promised a time table of the line with the nomenclature of its stations when opened.
Once he called her attention to the returning strength in his arm. "The ould man is not dead yet," he exulted, lifting his disabled arm and clinching his fist. "I feel younger than at any time since me accident," and as he spoke she perceived something of the lion in the light of his eyes. One night as she was passing his chair he reached for her and caught her and drew her down upon his knee.
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