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However, thank God, here we are at home; an' blessed be His name that we have a home to come to; for, afther all, what place is like it? Throth, Peety, my heart longed for these brave fields of ours for the lough there below, and the wild hills above us; for it wasn't until I was away from them that I felt how strong the love of them was in my heart."
"Throth, an' it'll be many a day till there's a wrinkle in your face, avourneen an' now that I look at you agin a pretty an' a sweet face it is. 'Deed it's many a day since I seen two sich faces as yours and the other young lady's; but anyway, you had betther let me get you a comfortable cup o' tay afther your long journey. Oh, then, but that beautiful creature has a sorrowful look, poor thing."
So with that, the divil and he parted for that time: and myself doesn't know whether they used to meet often afther or not; but the colonel never wanted money, anyhow, but went on prosperous in the world and, as the saying is, if he took the dirt out o' the road, it id turn to money wid him; and so, in course of time, he bought great estates, and was a great man entirely not a greater in Ireland, throth.
'Better let him alone till morning, and tuck in his bedclothes again for to-night, poor fellow. But Arthur had started up to investigate, and must pull the black fleece for his personal satisfaction. 'Oh, throth he's stirrin' now! exclaimed Andy, who had begun to cram the orifice with the former stuffing of dried bough and brush.
"Well, sir, the devil resave the bit of it he'd gi' me, and so, with that, the 'curse o' the hungry an you, you ould negarly villain, says I; 'the back o' my hand and the sowl o' my foot to you, that you may want a gridiron yourself yit, says I; and with that I left them there, sir, and kem away, and, in throth, it's often sense that I thought that it was remarkable."
"Throth, an' you ought," said the mid-wife; "the boy says nuttin' but the thruth it's not a common night; an' if God has given Fardorougha substance, he shouldn't begridge a little, if it was only to show a grateful heart."
"Well, sir, the ould chap began to munseer me; but the devil 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 distriss, 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.
Now saddle the horse till I ride across the bog to Pether Rafferty's Station, where I'm to sarve mass; plase heaven, I'll soon be able to say one myself, and give you all a lift in spirituals ehem!" "Throth, Dinny, I b'lieve you're right, avick; and " "Vick me no longer, father that's another thing I forgot.
And then, soon enough, throth, our provisions began to run low, the bishkits and the wather and the rum throth, THAT was gone first of all God help uz! and oh! it was thin that starvation began to stare us in the face. 'O murther, murther, Captain darlint, says I, 'I wish we could land anywhere, says I.
"Well, then, I didn't hear; but anyhow, they say that a new workin' boy of O'Driscol's, that dogged them up beyant Darby Hourigan's, was wounded by them, along with Darby himself, in regard, of his having joined the young fellow in dodgin' afther them." "Are they seriously hurt?" asked John. "Throth that's more than I can say, but I hope they're not, poor fellows; at any rate, I'm sure Mr.
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