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But the luncheon for which they stayed was exceptionally good, and she was delighted with her big back room. "I'm alone wid the two of thim to raise," said Mrs. Gilfogle. "I know what it is. He died on me just as I got three hundred dollars' worth of furniture in, God rest him. I didn't know would I ever pay for it at all, with Joe here at the breast, and Annie only walking.
"They have no bowels, Connor they have no bowels, thim O'Briens." "Then you didn't succeed." "The father's as great a bodagh as him he was called after they're a bad pack an' you mustn't think of any one belongin'to them." "But tell us, man dear," said the wife, "what passed let us know it all." "Why, they would do nothin' they wouldn't hear of it.
Oi think somebody ran past the barn, aisy loike." "You didn't see anybody?" "No, sur. As Oi said before, thim Leghorns that Pat Callahan gave me " "We'll ahem! drop the Leghorns. After you heard the strange noise how long was it before you heard Miss Langmore scream?" "Perhaps quarter av an hour, sur. Oi didn't look to the clock." "And she fainted in your arms?" "Not exactly that, sur.
'an' if she says she won't see me, thin I won't trouble her more. Thim were his words, Miss." There he was before the fire, his feet slightly apart and his hands in his pockets, waiting for her. She got a glimpse of him standing thus, as she came down the stairs. It was not the attitude of a culprit. Nor did he bear the faintest resemblance to a culprit as he came up to her in the doorway.
Mother av Hiven! how they cried, an' the ould she-god grinnin' above thim all so scornful! The dhrink was dyin' out in me fast, an' I was thinkin' harder than the thoughts wud go through my head-thinkin' how to get out, an' all manner of nonsense as well.
"`Who stole the eggs? says the billy-goat. "`Ax your ould grandmother! says the pig. "`Ax me ould WHICH mother? says the billy-goat. "`Oh, ax me And before he could complete the sintence, ram, blam, the ould billygoat butts him in the chist, and away goes the both of thim whirtlin' into the say below.
"Ah! and Oi suppose ye'll be betting wid thim bookmakers betting on the horses, will yez? They do be terrible knowing men, thim bookmakers, they tell me. I wouldn't bet much if Oi was ye," he said, with an affable smile. "If ye go bettin' ye will be took in wid thim bookmakers."
"Yez would be caught the first thing, and the only thing thot would kape thim from hangin' yez would be because they wouldn't have inny rope sthout enough to hould your weight." "When are you going, Dick?" queried Ben. "This evening at six."
Barny had proposed potatoes; Peter said there were enough of them already where he was going; and Barny rejoined that, "praties were so good in themselves there never could be too much o' thim anywhere." But in many similar mistakes the ingenious Mr. Kelly has been paralleled by other speculators.
"I 'd like to go down to the store this mornin', Miss Withers, plase. Sure I've niver a shoe to my fut, only jist these two that I've got on, an' one other pair, and thim is so full of holes that whin I 'm standin' in 'em I'm outside of 'em intirely." "You can go, Kitty," Miss Silence answered, funereally.