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"Whin I was about three-quarters av a mile off the rest-camp, powtherin' along fit to burrst, I heard the noise av the men an', on my sowl, sorr, I cud catch the voice av Peg Barney bellowin' like a bison wid the belly-ache. You remimber Peg Barney that was in D Comp'ny a red, hairy scraun, wid a scar on his jaw?
I stud to attenshin an' saluted: 'Sorr, sez I, 'av ivry man in this wurruld had his rights, I'm thinkin' that more than wan wud be beaten to a jelly for this night's work that niver came off at all, sorr, as you see? 'Now, thinks I to myself, 'Terence Mulvaney, you've cut your own throat, for he'll sthrike, an' you'll knock him down for the good av his sowl an' your own iverlastin' dishgrace!
And Mother Borton says I was to come hot-foot for you, and tell you to come with your men if ye valued your sowl." "Is she in danger?" "I reckon the thought was heavy on her mind, for her face was white with the terror of it."
"He's my cousin," hard tugging at the dead bodies with one arm; the other hung powerless. "I can't face Mary an' her childher agin an' say I lift her man widout Christian burial. Howld yer sowl! Dan Reilly, give us a lift; here he is. Are ye dead, Pat?" One eye in the blackened face opened. "On'y my leg.
A human crathure widout a sowl, is what I call a heretick; and none of the O'Hearns ever came to that." Nick was tolerably drunk, but by no means so far gone, that he had not manners enough to make a grave, and somewhat dignified gesture; which was as much as to say he was familiar with the subject. "All go ole fashion here?" he asked, avoiding every appearance of curiosity, however.
There's no a sowl wants this hoose to stan' but the mistress doon there, that doesna want to waur the siller, and the rottans inside the wa's o' 't, that doesna want to fa' into the cluiks o' Bawdrins and Colley wha lie in wait for sic like jist as the deevil does for the sowl o' the heepocreet. Come oot o' the sun, lassie.
"It's no good at all, at all! And now I must die unshriven, wid that awful sin on me sowl." But suddenly the blissful clatter of a man's quick footsteps aroused her, and she saw, as in a vision, the door thrown wide, and the doctor's commiserating face bending above her.
But ye niver did have no feelin's, ye bloomin' heathen. "''Pon me sowl, what cud I do else? "'O' course, 'tain't likely a rough feller like you could do any better, but whin any wimmen folks come aboard agin, come to a man as is used to thim. A man as can talk an' act in a way they likes. A man wid some ways to him. A man Here he stooped an' picked up th' button th' old gal had dropped.
I've fought ut off for months an' months, but the liquor will not bite any more, Terence, he sez. 'I can't get dhrunk. "Thin I knew he spoke the truth about bein' in hell, for whin liquor does not take hould, the sowl av a man is rotten in him. But me bein' such as I was, fwhat could I say to him? "'Di'monds an' pearls, he begins again.
"Well, sir, the ould chap began to munseer me; but the divil a bit of a gridiron he'd gi' me; and so I began to think they wor all neygars, for all their fine manners; and, throth, my blood begun to rise, and says I, 'By my sowl, if it was you was in disthress, says I, 'and if it was to ould Ireland you kem, it's not only the gridiron they'd give you, if you axed it, but something to put an it, too, and the drop o' dhrink into the bargain, and cead mile failte.
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