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"An' it's not wan av yez Oi remimber takin' up to th' freshman's boording house." "We have changed," explained Ned Stover. "And it's the first change I have seen for a week," declared Harry Rattleton. "I'm waiting to hear from the governor." "Howld on," said the driver. "Oi want to see the mon thot hired me." He threatened to pull up, but Frank caught the whip and cracked it over the horses.
What you were to me years ago on the wally-by-track and the buffalo-trail, you are now, and I'm the same also: M'Gann and Lawless, and no other." "Well, then, Lawless, it's true enough as he says it, for I've seen more than wan skin brought in, though I niver clapped eye on the beast alive.
They're a fine family f'r falls. Jawn Grogan was wurrukin' on th' top iv Metzri an' O'Connell's brewery wanst, with a man be th' name iv Dorsey. He slipped an' fell wan hundherd feet. Whin they come to see if he was dead, he got up, an' says he: 'Lave me at him. 'At who? says they. 'He's deliryous, they says. 'At Dorsey, says Grogan.
Day by day, his weakness increased; day by day, his pale hands grew paler, and his hollow cheek more wan. But the love in his boy's heart hung about his sick-bed as flowers that have an eternal fragrance from their birth.
She had closed her eyes and lay wan upon her pillow. The count was patiently listening to her, not wishing her to tire herself. A whole minute went by before she reopened her eyes and murmured: "Besides, how about the money? Where would you get the money from if you must grow angry and go to law? Labordette came for the bill yesterday.
"Tell the faithful to give no quarter; tell um to desthroy ivery wan of these schismatics; an' as for the Dutchman, burrn him at the stake, as they used to do in the good owld times." A great battle ensued; the adherents of Higginsism were defeated and dispersed; the door of the temple opened to Umbaho and the German.
His strength is spent with toil; and with wan face and wasted form He lies stretched out on some rude boards the picture of one whose candle is burning away all too fast, and whom excess of zeal is hurrying into premature old age and an untimely grave. Was the sight such as to suggest the question, Where is now thy God? how soon it changed into a scene of magnificence and omnipotent power!
And whenever, in response to a salute, she was forced to bow her head, a blush rose in her cheeks, a wan smile seemed to make confession: "I know I look a guy; I know it's odd for me to be sitting here alone!" She felt old older than she had ever felt before.
"That's wan way ov lukin' at a vexed question, but you're th' only wan that luks at it that way!" "There's two," Anna said. "That's how I see it." When Jamie became a journeyman shoemaker, the priest was asked to perform the marriage ceremony.
And in his eyes was that which triumphed, not over dumbness, but over speech. It brought the rose-fire rushing into her wan cheeks; she hid her face on his bosom; and, under the dingy red flame of the lamp in the stony street, they held each other, as blessed as if they had been under an orange tree haunted with fire-flies. For they knew each the heart of the other, and God is infinite.
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