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He would have killed the chap, his timper was so ruffled, if the man hadn't nearly killed him afore he had the chance. He laid all night in the gutter, and was just able to crawl home next day, while the fellow went a-courting the next night, as if nothing had happened. "Tom begun to git melancholy, and his mouth didn't appear quite as broad as usual.
I was loath to do ut, but I wint round an' swung into the jaw side-on an' shifted ut a half pace to the lef'. "'Will ye hear reason now? sez I; 'I can't keep my timper much longer, an 'tis like I will hurt you. "'Not whoile I can stand, he mumbles out av one corner av his mouth. So I closed an' threw him blind, dumb, an' sick, an' jammed the jaw straight.
It were high time she were off, for them 'air-dyes upon t' cur's back took a vast of paintin' to keep t' reet culler, tho' Orth'ris spent a matter o' seven rupees six annas i' t' best drooggist shops i' Calcutta. An' t' Canteen Sargint was lookin' for 'is dog everywheer; an', wi' bein' tied up, t' beast's timper got waur nor ever.
'I'm sorry, he says, 'to lose me timper, he says, 'but, he says, 'afther all th' pretinded affection iv these people f'r us, he says, 'an' afther all we've done f'r thim in Alaska an' an' ivrywhere, he says, 'an' thim sellin' us coal whin they might've sold it to th' Spanyards if th' Spanyards'd had th' money, he says, 'to see th' conduct iv that coarse an' brutal Englishman 'Th' wan that won th' r-race? says I. 'Yes, he says.
I did not interfere until we were approaching our camping-ground, when I sent Patsey back, to say that I wished to see him. The boy returned, saying, "He's a-comin', but he says, kape yer timper." "What did he say?" inquired I, in no little astonishment. "He said, Yis, he'd come, but kape yer timper; shure, so he did." At this moment Hal rode up.
There's Paddy Neil your sarvint-boy; now, if Paddy, who's an honest man's son, axed your niece, wouldn't you be apt to lose your timper?" "I beg your pardon, Mrs. Connell, I think your fire's rather hot allow me to drawback a little. Mrs. Connell, your health again! Mr. Connell, your fireside!"
"And what fortune would you expect with a girl of genteel connexion a girl that's accomplished, well say in music, plain work, and Irish, vernacularly? hem! What fortune would you be expecting with such a girl?" "Why, Docthor, ahagur, the only music I'd wish for my son's wife is a good timper; an' that's what their music-masthers can't tache thim.
"Mather, is it?" began Gaynor, "it's just this, Miss Allis; if yer father thinks I'm goin' to stand by an' see good colts spiled in their timper just because a rapscallion b'y has got the evil intints av ould Nick himself, thin he's mistook, that's all." "Who is it Mike Shandy?" "That's him, Miss. He's the divil on wheels, bangin' thim horses about as though he was King Juba."
Well, this wasn't at all plasin' to Jim Sulivan you may be sure, an' there was scarce a week that his head wasn't plasthered up, or his back bint double, or his nose swelled as big as a pittaty, with the vilence iv her timper, an' his heart was scalded everlastin'ly with her tongue; so he had no pace or quietness in body or soul at all at all, with the way she was goin' an.
The same intelligent eye, the same cheery expression, the same devil-may-care manner and dry humour " "Answer my question, will you?" the merchant interrupted savagely. "And the same hasty timper," continued the major imperturbably. "I've forgotten, me dear sir, what it was you asked me." "What is it you want?" "Ah, yes, of course. What is it I want?" the old soldier said meditatively.
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