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"I think," she whispered, "it's some sort of prayers like what his Riverence sez." "Ah, then, glory be to God for that itself," said Bridget, "there might be a good chance for him after all." But she had been misinformed. The words Mr. Polymathers was muttering over and over to himself were: Admitto te admitto te. The evening of the day after Mr.
The extreme urgency of Andy's manner, as he pressed up to the pastor's side, made the latter pause and inquire what he wanted. "I want to get some advice from your riverence," said Andy.
"And so I was, yer riverence, only ye see for a mistake as happened." "A mistake! Was it she made the mistake or you?" "Why it warn't exactly herself thin as did it; it war her mother." "Her mother made a mistake! What mistake did her mother make?" "Along of the cow, yer riverence." Denis seemed very slow of explaining, and Father John began to be impatient. "What cow, Denis?
When the mass was over, Andy waited at the door of the chapel to catch "his riverence" coming out, and obtain his advice about what he overheard from Larry Hogan; and Father Phil was accordingly accosted by Andy just as he was going to get into his saddle to ride over to breakfast with one of the neighbouring farmers, who was holding the priest's stirrup at the moment.
"And sure the good God wouldn't be after takin' him from us, for didn't his riverence there put up a prayer that would melt the heart of the angels, and I did promise God meself a rale fast, with niver an egg nor a bit of a fish to my teeth, if he should lave him wid us. And Carroll, darlin', ye'll not be after breakin' ye're wife's heart, nor makin' her a widow?
"Is it swearing Your Riverence objects to?" said Macmillan, whose vocabulary still retained a slight flavour of the Old Land. "I do assure you that they won't pull a pound without it." But the Bishop could not be persuaded of this, and urged upon Macmillan the necessity of eliminating this part of his persuasion. "Just as you say, Your Riverence. I ain't hurried this trip and we'll do our best."
"And he's the boy that would do it, directly. And mind this, McGovery, you've the name of a prudent fellow when you're once married, the less you see of your brother-in-law the better, and stick to your work in Drumsna." "And so I manes. Oh, yer riverence, they won't be making me be wasting my hard arned wages at Mrs. Mulready's.
Jimmy was a genial old Irish expressman whose stand was at the New Haven Green. Jimmy came and looked me over. Then came Bob Grant, a foreman from a near-by manufacturing concern, and after him four Socialist comrades on their way home from work. "Ah, Mother o' God," Jimmy said, "shure it's an ambulance yer riverence shud haave." "I want you, Jimmy; pile me in."
"In course, your riverence, though the likes of a poor boy like me hasn't much, I wouldn't not be married dacently, Father John; and in course I couldn't expect yer riverence to be doing it for nothing." "For nothing indeed!
And then, while they were still in the middle of all this; when the punch-jug had given way to the teapot, and the rector was beginning to bethink himself that a nap in his armchair would be very refreshing, Jerry came into the room to announce that Richard had come over from Castle Richmond with a note for "his riverence." And so Richard was shown in.
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