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"Ha, ha, ha, that's right good divil a man livin' makes me laugh so much as why then, Frank Maguire too! throth, Frank, I'm proud to see you well an' how are you, man? and well, in throth I am happy to see you lookin' so well, and in good health; an' whisper, Frank, it's your own fau't that I'm not inquirin' for the wife and childre."
"In throth," said Tom, "that's no more than thruth, Nancy; but he had not, and everything went to the bad with them entirely." "It's a thousand pities he hadn't yourself, Nancy," said Alick, grinning; "if he had, I haven't the laste doubt at all, but he'd die worth money."
"Why, tare alive, Pether, is it in bed you are at this hour of the day?" "Eh? Who's that who's that? oh!" "Why thin, the sarra lie undher you, is that the way wid you?" "Oh! oh! Eh? Is that Condy?" "All that's to the fore of him. What's asthray wid you man alive?" "Throth, Condy, I don't know, rightly.
"To be sure I could," said Phelim, "have her thumpin' her breast, and countin' her Padareens in no time. Would you wish me to have her, mudher?" "Throth an' I would, avick." "That 'ud never do," observed the father. "Sure you don't think she'd ever think of the likes o' Phelim?" "Don't make a goose of yourself, ould man," observed Phelim.
"Throth, I allow," replied the pedlar, "that things is in a distressin' state with us; however, while there's life there's hope, as the Doctor says. There must be something extraordinary wrong to keep them away so long, I grant or herself, at any rate; still, I say again, trust in God. You have secured Duncan, you say; but can you depend on the ruffian?"
"'Bryan, said I, 'I scorn a moral circumbendibus where the direct truth is necessary; I have heard it said, and I fear it is burthened wid too much uncomfortable veracity, that Kathleen Cavanagh has donned the black cap* in doing the judicial upon you, and that she considers her sentence equal to the laws of the Medes and Persians, unchangeable or, like those of our own blessed church wid reverence be the analogy made altogether infallible. His eye blazed as I spoke; he caught me where by the collar wid a grip that made me quake 'Another word against Kathleen Cavanagh, he replied, 'and I will shake every joint of your carcass out of its place. His little sister, Dora, was wid him at the time; 'Give him a shake or two as it is, she added, egging him on, 'for what he has said already; throth she's a lively little lady that, an' if it wasn't that she has a pair of dark shining eyes, and sweet features ay, and as coaxin' a figure of her own however, sorra may care, somehow, I defy any one to, be angry wid her."
"Throth, she's very well, Peety has no raison to complain, thank God!" "Thank God, indeed! and betther may she be, is my worst wish to her an' Masther Hycy, sir? but I needn't ax how he is.
Now, Kathleen," she added, laughing, "if you should spoil a priest afther all! Well! un-likelier things have happened." "That may be," replied Kathleen, "but this won't happen for all that, Hanna. Go, there he's calling for you again." "Yes yes," she shouted; "throth, among you all, Kathleen, you're making a regular go-between of me.
We haven't now more than a quarther to go, and then for a tight drop to wet my whistle, an' dhrink the little girshas health an' her mother's. Throth I've put in a good apprenticehip to sobriety, anyhow. Come, Madjey," he added, addressing the servant-maid, "put down the kettle till we have a little jorum of our own; Frank here and myself; and all of yez."
Well now if I had killed her got the ould knife into her heart I might lave the counthry. If I had killed her now, throth it 'ud be a good joke, an' all in a fit of passion, bekase she didn't come home in time to let me meet him. Well, I'll go back an' spake soft to her, for, afther all, she'll give me a hard life of it."
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