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In other nations it is the Irishman who rules. It is only in his own counthry that he is ruled. And the debt of hathred and misery and blasted lives and dead hopes is at our door today. Shall that debt be unpaid?" Look at the faces of yer brothers and sisthers, worn and starved. Look at yer women-kind, old before they've been young.
"This isn't the place for girls, at all, at all! And they tell me she's from the old country. Will I be sending up one of the good Sisthers to see after her, and put things to rights a bit?" For the second time that day Emile ungratefully rejected the ministrations of the Church.
'We'll be ruined intirely if we stop till she's cured, yer leddyship! 'Niver a frind in the worrld, yer honour. 'Her mother and father, sisthers and brothers, all dead of the faver and the famine. 'Nobody left but her relations in Carrmarrthinshire, and, maybe, they're all dead and buried, yer honour's glory. 'And what'll we do wid her, poor sowl?
"I wouldn't demane myself to Barry so much as to wish her out of this now she's here. But it was along of you she came here, and av' I've to pay for all this lawyer work, you oughtn't to see me at a loss. I'm shure I don't know where your sisthers is to look for a pound or two when I'm gone, av' things goes on this way," and again the widow whimpered.
An' afther all, there's many a one that's worse off nor us here, I can tell ye, especially since the Sisthers come, God bless them, with their holy ways. How'd ye like to be beyant at the Union, where the nurses gobbles up all the nourishment that's ordhered for the poor misfortunate cratures that's in it, an leaves thim sthretched from mornin' till night without doin' a hand's turn for them.
She and her neighbour were excellent friends all the same, and she soon shared Kate's enthusiasm for "the Sisthers," finding comfort moreover in the discovery that Sister Louise understood and sympathised with her feelings, and was willing to receive endless confidences on the subject of the "little boy," and to discuss the probability of his speedy advent with almost as much eagerness as herself.
She then proceeded to the consequences of the marriage, and expressed her hope that when Martin got all that ready money he would "do something for his poor sisthers for Heaven knew they war like to be bad enough off, for all she'd be able to do for them!"
Isn't it a comfort to be lookin' at them holy things, and to see the blessed Sisthers come walkin' in in the mornin' wid a heavenly smile for every one, an' their holy eyes lookin' into every hole an' corner an' spyin' out what's wrong?" "Aye, indeed," assented Mrs.
But it was the letthers from me ould mother, Miss, that is sthruck wid a mortial illness long life to her! in County Clare, and me sisthers in Ninth Avenue in New York, fornint the daypo, that is brekken their harruts over me listin' in the Fourth Infanthry to do duty in a haythen wilderness.
"I would have done all I could, Martin. I would have loved you fondly and truly. I would have liked what you liked, and, av I could, I would've made your home quiet and happy. Your mother should have been my mother, and your sisthers my sisthers." "So they are now, Anty so they are now, my own, own Anty they love you as much as though they were."
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