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Wid two sich lips o' your own, an' two sich eyes o' your own, an' two sich cheeks o' your own! Oh, , by the tarn, that won't pass." "Well, an' supposin' I had behave Phelim supposin' I had, where's the harm? Sure it's well known all the sweethearts, you had, an' have yet, I suppose." "Be gorra, an' that's thruth; an' the more the merrier, you jewel you, till, one get's married.
"I will spake the thruth," replied her mother, evidently borne away and subdued, "although it's against myself to my shame an' to my sorrow I say it that when I married your father, another man had my affections but, as I'm to appear before God, I never wronged him. I don't know how it is that you've made me confess it; but at any rate you're the first that ever wrung it out o' me."
They'se no wan depindant on me f'r support, an' he surrinders. But a marrid man says: 'What'll happen to me wife an' twelve small childher if I don't win out here today? an' he bites his way to th' top iv th' pile an' breaks open th' ballot box f'r home and fireside. That's th' thruth iv it, Hinnissy. Ye'll find all th' big jobs held be marrid men an' all th' timpry clerkships be bachelors."
* I have no hesitation in asserting that the bulk of the uneducated peasantry really believe that the priests have this power. "To tell you the thruth, Phaddhy, I would rather he wouldn't examine me this bout, at all at all." "Ay, but you know we couldn't go agin him, Briney, bekase he promised to get you into the college. Will you speak some Latin, now till I hear you?" "Hem!
"A multitude of his shins, you mane, sir," said Phil, "for thruth he's all shin." In fact, Phil from his infancy had an uncommon attachment to these animals, and by a mind naturally shrewd and observing, made himself as intimately acquainted with their habits and instincts, and the best modes of managing them, as ever the celebrated Cahir na Cappul* did with those of the horse.
"Will I tell him you're itchy about the houghs? eh? However, the thruth is, that they," and he pointed to the stocks "might be justice, but no novelty to you. The iron gathers is an ornament you often wore, an' will again, plase goodness."
"An' it was thruth, too; an' sure, by the same a token, whore could I get one half so red as your own? Faix, I knew what I was about! I wouldn't give you yet for e'er a young man in the parish, if I was a widow to-morrow. Will you take the land?" "So thin, afther all, if the head hadn't been an me, I wouldn't be a favorite wid you? ha, ha, ha!" "Get out wid you, and spake sinse.
It is difficult, however, for any country to be happy, or any people either industrious or moral, when such secret confederacies are made the standard of both law and morality." "That's thruth, Mr.
There now it wanted to be pulled down a little at the cuffs. Owen, it's a beauty; an' I think I have good right to be proud of it, for it's every thread my own spinnin'." "How do I look in it, Kathleen? Tell me thruth, now." "Throth, you're twenty years younger; the never a day less." "I think I needn't be ashamed to go afore my ould friends in it, any way.
Boys, the thruth is this, you must all meet here to-morrow night, for the short an' long of it is, that I'm goin' to run away wid a wife." "Well," replied Redhead, "sure you can do that widout our assistance, if she's willin' to come." "Willin'! why," replied Bartle, "it's by her own appointment we're goin'."
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