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"Gals hain't changed much since I wuz a-courtin'. They allus make aout ter be desprit set agin the fellers an' mortal daown on marryin', but, lordy me! if the men held off the hussies 'ud do the chasm'." "Thee knows, Lambert," remarked his better half, "that I think Janice would get more discipline and greater godliness in " "I tell ye he sha'n't have her," broke in the squire.
"An' she has the fine fortun', mind ye," said Judy proudly, "the Masther left her a power o' money 'deed an' he did, a power o' money!" "Bedad, he must have left her a good bit," agreed Pat meditatively, "and she desarves it all. 'Pon me word, I wisht Mike had left that ould rick alone. Sure, it's her that's the loser now. It's into her pocket all that fine money 'ud be comin'."
It 'ud ease me a little if I could. And now you're beginning to have secrets. Emmy! It was a cry of anguish. The mention of tears had brought them to Emma's eyes, for they lurked very near the surface, and Jane had seen the firelight touch on a moist cheek. For an instant she raised herself from the pillows.
"Not as you'd care much, I daresay, if you did hear; for you're too feather-headed to mind if everybody was dead, so as you could stay upstairs a-dressing yourself for two hours by the clock. But anybody besides yourself 'ud mind about such things happening to them as think a deal more of you than you deserve.
They had rum, oceans o' that, but it 'ud only make things worse. True, they mout a caught some o' the rain in their shirts and tarpaulins, as we did; but they weren't the sort to be careful o' it wi' a rum-cask standin' by; an' I dar say, by this time, though they may have some'at to eat, as you knows, Snowy, they'll be dyin' for a drop o' drink. In that case "
"He, who came as a kid and wanted to see if my band-saw 'ud take his head off in one swish he, Tony Taylor, who knew enough at ten to spot the winner of the Cup, to go and get landed by a fossicker's yarn. There's a darned rum go." "Yes; and where's the cause of it all?" Marmot asked. "There must be a cause. We'd all be black-fellows and earth-worms if it wasn't for a cause.
We must o' walked fer well nigh onto three weeks, an' all we ever seed in all that time was a pole-cat an' we wished we hadn't o' seed him, fer Ben had t' bury every livin' last stitch o' his duds an' walk home in his bare hide. Haw, haw! I wisht Tad 'ud come 'long now an' take a squint at yew fellers he'd bust a bein' tickled!" "Dad, how is your good health these days?" inquired Mr.
It signifies nothing to him, I know that; he's one o' them fine gentlemen as get money by doing business for poorer folks, and when he's made beggars of 'em he'll give 'em charity. I won't forgive him! I wish he might be punished with shame till his own son 'ud like to forget him. I wish he may do summat as they'd make him work at the treadmill!
They may teach you young gentlemen to talk Latin and Greek and what-not at your school, but it 'ud do a lot more good if they'd teach you how many beans make five; it 'ud do a lot more good if they'd teach you to come in when it rained; it 'ud do ..." Mike was reading the letter. "Dear Mr. Barley," it ran. "I send the £5, which I could not get before.
Och, och, she's lyin' low that often laughed at that, an' I'm here ay, I have no one, no one that 'ud show me sich a warm heart as she would. I'll sing yez a song she liked: 'Och, Brian O'Lynn, he had milk an' male, A two-lugged porringer wantin' a tail. Musha, I'm out agin ha, ha, ha! Why, I b'lieve there's pishthrogues an me, or I'd remember it. Bud-an-age, dhrink of all ye.
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