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Throth, myself's not the betther of the fright you put me into." "No," replied Denis, "the Bishop treated me harshly, I thought: he said I was not properly fit. 'You might pass, said he, 'upon a particular occasion, or under peculiar circumstances; but it will take at least a year and a half's study to enable you to enter Maynooth as I would wish you.
An' the servant that was here afore me a clean, good-natured girl she was, in throth an' got married to a blacksmith, at the cross-roads beyant tould me that the scrames, an' yells, an' howlins, and roarins the cursin' and blasphaymin' an' the laughin', that she said was worse than all an' the rattlin' of chains the Lord save us would make one think themselves more in hell than in any place upon this world.
But throth, that way of savin' 'em would be great news intirely for the childer at home! So thought Robert Wynn afterwards, when he found the practice almost universal among the Canadians, and wondered that a domestic expedient so simple and serviceable should be confined to American housekeepers.
"Paddy, here's towarst you an' yours nabors all your healths young couple! Paddy, give us your hand, man alive! Sure, whether we agree or not, this won't put between us." "Throth, it won't, Larry an' I'm thankful to you. Your health, Larry, an' all your healths! Phelim an' Peggy, success to yez, whether or not! An' now, in regard o' your civility, I will spake up.
The Lord rest his sowl in glory ha, ha, ha I'll never forget it. Paddy, the song, you thief?" "No, but tell them about that, Misther Connell." "Throth, an' I will; but don't be Mitherin me. Faith, this is The height o' good punch. You see ha, ha, ha! You see, it was one hard summer afore I was married to Ellish mavourneen, that you wor, asthore! Och, och, are we parted at last?
"Indeed!" rejoined the baronet; "really, I always supposed the French to be a most accomplished people." "Throth, then, they're not, sir," interrupts Pat. "Oh, by no means," adds mine host, shaking his head emphatically. "Yes, sir," says Pat, "the broad Atlantic" a favourite phrase of his, which he gave with a brogue as broad, almost, as the Atlantic itself.
'I'd as soon go to walk on the edges of knives as on them things they call skates; throth, betune the shoes as long as yerself for the snow, an' the shoes wid soles as sharp as a soord for the ice, our own ould brogues aren't much use to us. An' as for calling that boord a boat, I hope they won't thry it on the wather, that's all.
"Throth it will that, dear," she said, "but sure ye couldn't take a prize fur it!" "Why?" I growled. "Ah, honey, shure everybody would know that ye didn't grow it forby they know that th' smoke in here would kill it in a few days." I sulked and protested. "That's a nice way t' throw cowld wather on th' chile," Jamie said. "Why don't ye let 'im go on an' take his chances at the show?"
I don't think he's asleep." "Fool Art! why, the misfortunate idiot, what about him? Sure he hasn't sinse to know the right hand from the left. Bedad, ma'am the truth is, that a purty woman always makes a " "Throth an' you won't," said she struggling. "Throth an' I will, thin, taste the same lips, or we'll see whose strongest!"
That I may never, but he looks at the darlin' as if it was a sod of turf. Throth you're not worthy of havin' such a bully." Fardorougha, during this dialogue, held the child in his arms and looked upon it earnestly as before, but without betraying any visible indication of countenance that could enable a spectator to estimate the nature of what passed within him.
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