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"I'd liefer than nine nine-pennies see thim comin' along. But I'm afeard it's early for thim yet." Everybody's eyes turned, as she spoke, towards the ridge of the Knockawn, though with no particular expectation of seeing what they wished upon it. But, behold, just at that moment three figures, blurred among the grey rain-mists, looming into view. "Be the powers," said Mrs.
'Be the powers, remarked Bloody Mike 'it's a great convenience entirely, to have thim sacret passages from the Vault into intarior of houses; there's two of thim, one under the crib in Anthony street, and the other under this dacent house in Rade street. 'Yes, you're right, said Pete 'but come, let's do our business and be off it's near three o'clock.
He found his companions lying where he had left them. Certain unmistakable signs of life among the trees over the grade they had heard, but that was all. Murphy was growling into the loose sand beneath his chin. "Mother o' Mike! Why don't ye rush thim? There's bunches jist over there. Fir-rst thing ye know they'll get away. A good scr-rap going to waste, it is.
Michael Ryan said, with a touch of resentment, "Ah, well, one couldn't maybe expec' it of thim to be throublin' thimselves talkin' fine for the pack of us, as ignorant as dirt, in the middle of th'ould bog." And his wife said, "'Deed, now, I wouldn't won'er meself if the raison was his Riverence 'ud think bad of usin' his Latin words for anythin' else on'y prayers and such.
She shivered and bent her head. "Oh, not like thim two ornery tramps who had these blossoms 'fore I got 'em, but like I'd love a sister, if I had one; like Father Le Claire loves me. D'ye see?" "You are a dear, good brother, O'mie," Marjie murmured, without lifting her head. "Oh, yis, I'm all av that an' more. Marjie, I'm goin' to kape these flowers till well, now, Marjie, shall I tell you whin?"
"The Kellys was always able to hould their own; thanks be to glory." "Well, I've said my say, Mr Daly," said Martin, "and now do you say your'n: as for throubles, we've all enough of thim; but your own must have been bad, when you undhertook this sort of job for Barry Lynch." "Mind yourself, Martin, as I told you before, and you'll about have enough to do.
In half an hour the committees had been appointed, and the mayor turned to the regular business. Then from his seat at the left of the last row little Alderman Toole arose. "Misther Mayor," he said, "how about thim thim don thim don Golas!" whispered Alderman Grevemeyer hoarsely, "dongolas." "How about thim dongolas, Misther Mayor?" asked Alderman Toole. "Sure!" said the mayor.
Kelcey to her husband. "It'll take a power of it to pay for all o' thim, an' fruit so dear." "Whist, he knows what he's about," returned Patrick Kelcey, uninclined to remonstrate with any man for giving him that unaccustomed and delightful feeling that his vest buttons must be surreptitiously unloosed or he would burst them off. He helped himself lavishly as he spoke.
Sure he can smell thim the same as you an' me kin see the red paint on their faces." "I reckon that's true," said Bill Cowan, with solemnity, and so he carried me off. At length the cattle were turned out to browse greedily through the clearing, while we lay in the woods by the forest and listened to the sound of their bells, but when they strayed too far, I was often sent to drive them back.
"Don't call me 'Misther," Willie said; "only quality calls me 'Misther' an' I don't like it it doesn't fit an honest stone breaker." The question was repeated and he said: "I wear a green ribbon on Pathrick's Day an' an orange cockade on th' Twelfth ov July, an' if th' ax m' why, I tell thim t' go t' h l!
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