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"I'm sure, I'm greatly obliged to you, gentlemen, and I hask a thousand pardons for troublin' you," she concluded in a somewhat severe tone, that left them abashed and culpable; and vanished as mysteriously as she had appeared.
"Och, grandfather, sure ye wouldn't do the like! I ax your pardon for spakin' disrespectful to ye. Sure ye're not in airnest? Ye won't raly put the poor old man and his wife there out o' their little place? They won't be troublin' you long. A-a-h, grandfather, me own dear grandfather, do lave them where they are an' I'll promise faithful never to give you a crass word again."
Then 'e opened 'is eyes an' looked long and 'ard at Lydy Elling. "'Of course I'll try to do as you'd wish about the picture, 'Ugh, if that's w'at's troublin' you, she says quiet. With that 'e closed 'is eyes and 'e never opened 'em. He died unconscious at four that mornin'. "You see, sir, Lydy Elling was always cruel 'ard on the Marriage.
All the subtleties of the present combination were troubling Cowperwood as he followed Butler into the room upstairs. "Sit down, sit down. You won't take a little somethin'? You never do. I remember now. Well, have a cigar, anyhow. Now, what's this that's troublin' you to-night?" Voices could be heard faintly in the distance, far off toward the thicker residential sections. "Extra! Extra!
"Tom Auley's been up watchin' this three nights now," confides the other old gossip. "Thim dirty b'y's troublin' his pigs in the sthy, and having every stramash about the place, all for revinge upon him for gettin' the police afther thim when they sthole his hins. 'T was as well for him too, they're dirty bligards, the whole box and dice of them."
In the mornin' Lummox comes to me, and sez he: 'I'm glad to see you back, sez he, 'for my conscience is troublin' me about that hoss agreement; it looks too much like a hoss trade, sez he, 'and I'm goin' to send the hoss back. 'Mebbe your conscience, sez I, 'may trouble you a little more ef you'll step this way; and with that I takes his arm and leads him round to the stable and brings out the hoss.
But that white-jacketed diplomat, who looked on from the sober side of the bar at so much that was salient to the life of Beira was not able to help them. "I couldn't make out what was troublin' them," he said, playing with the diamond ring on his middle finger. "They was talking round and round it, but they never named it right out. But it seems the younger one has been paid off.
So far, everything had seemed phantom-like, as in a dream, but the brutal truth of what he had said shocked her eyes wide open to the reality of what was taking place. Nor was her distress unnoticed by the Irishman. "I'm sorry to be troublin' you with me foolish spache," he said regretfully. "I mint nothin' by it. 'Tis a great day for Michael Dennin, an' he's as gay as a lark."
"Here, you," he said roughly, "part of what's troublin' you is that you ain't had any breakfast. You eat this and you'll feel better. I'll be back in a minute." He went away blindly into the darkest part of the cellar. It was very black there, but his eyes stared wide before him. It was very cold, but drops of sweat stood on his forehead as if he were in the hay-field.
Confronting him was a vast man whose muscles, like those of that other and more celebrated village blacksmith, were plainly as strong as iron bands. This man eyed Percy with a chilly eye. "Well," he said. "What's troublin' you?" Percy gulped. The man's mere appearance was a sedative. "Er nothing!" he replied. "Nothing!" "There better hadn't be!" said the man darkly. "Mr.
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