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There's his ugly yalle'r face now toorned this way foreninst you, Misther Gray-ham. Begorra hee don't look a day oulder, if a troifle uglier since I sayed him last!" "And is he a Chinaman?" I asked, full of curiosity; "a real, live Chinaman from the East?"
As I was sayin', afther that fight us av the Ould Rig'mint an' the Tyrone was all mixed together takin' shtock ay the dead, an' av coorse I wint about to find if there was any man that remimbered me. The second man I came acrost an' how I'd missed him in the fight I do not know was Larry, an' a fine man he looked, but oulder, by token that he had a call to be.
"It in a hard case upon them, as every body allows," said Mave, "but it's over now, and can't be helped. Good-bye, Nelly, an' God bless you; an' God bless you too," she added, addressing the strange woman, whose hand she shook and pressed. "You are a great deal oulder than I am, an' as I said, every one may read care an' sorrow upon your face.
A couple of chaps in uniform like came axin' me me business, but I tould them fast enough that I was a candidate ah, goodness help me.... And the Hall's a spacious and splendid apartment. On'y it was strange, now, to see it full of nothin' but young fellows, scarce oulder than the two lads there.
Who knows but you'd be dhrowned on your way, an' thin we'd get another husband." "An' be these blessed tongs, I'll do it afore I'm much oulder!" "An' lave me here to starve an' sthruggle by myself! Desart me like a villain, to poverty an' hardship!
Quigley, "afore he took up wid herself, that's as ugly as if she was bespoke, and half a dozen year oulder than the young bosthoon, if she's a minyit." It is true that at the time when Mrs. Quigley expressed this unflattering opinion she and her neighbours had been exasperated by an impolite speech of Mrs.
Sure you wouldn't go to bring me a daughter-in-law oulder nor myself?" Hard feelin' to her! how she did me to my face!" Phelim then entered into a long-visaged detail of the scene at Father O'Hara's, dwelling bitterly on the alacrity with which the old housekeeper ensnared him in his own mesh. "However," he concluded, "she'd be a sharp one if she'd do me altogether.
And the Clancys is as good as the Rorkes, an' an oulder family, though we are down in the world, along wid bad luck an' misfortun'." "The Clancys is an ould ancient family," chimed in Roseen. Her grandfather turned to her, almost beside himself with exasperation. "Get in wid ye to the house this instant, as I bid ye, miss; or it'll be the worse for ye.
I'm beginnin' to got ould an' stiff, an' its time for me to take care of myself." "Stiffer may you be, then, soon, an' oulder may you never be, an' that's the best I wish you!" "Aren't you afeard to talk to me in that way?" said the elder of the two. "No not a bit. You won't flake me now as you used to do.
'Cokely, you're bale, said he; 'and upon my honor you must both dine with me to-day, says he and capital claret he keeps." "Your health, Father Kavanagh, an' God spare you to us! Hah! wather! Oh, the divil a taste itself did the same stuff see! Why, thin, I think your Reverence an' me's about an age. I bleeve. I'm a thrifle oulder; but I don't bear it so well as you do.
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