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"Meat foul timey one week," answered the Chinaman. "God help ye, doctor!" said Murphy, kindly. "Kape well widin yer galley, and have a carvin'-knife sharp; or better still, dig out another brick for yersilf. I've troubles o' me own." Stepping out of the galley, Murphy met Hennesey emerging from the port forecastle door.
"And who brought the bad luck upon me first?" asked the woman. "Wasn't it the husband of the mother that bore you? Wasn't it his hand that disfigured me as you see, when I was widin a week of bein' dacently married? Your father, Lamh Laudher was the man that blasted my name, and made it bitther upon tongue of them that mintions it."
"We're axin your charity for God's sake!" Poor Tenant. "Why thin for His sake you would get it, poor crathur, if we had it; but it's not for you widin the four corners of the house. It 'ud be well for us if we had now all we gave away in charity durin' the Whole year; we wouldn't have to be buyin' for ourselves at three prices. Why don't you go up to the Big House? They're rich and can afford it."
And a rich Irish brogue responded: "Ut's thim black hathen that'll be goin' over the line in a bunch av I can git widin rache av thim wid me two hands." Abe opened his eyes with a smile. "Mornin' boys! Did Holmes make it in time?" An articulate yell of delight from Pat greeted his speech. The grizzled plainsman, with a smile of understanding, answered his question. "Sure he made it.
"Sir, I feel much relieved; I'm a changed man widin these few minutes, I may say but what, afther all, is aquil to a good example? I feel, sir, as if a strong hatred of idolaphry was comin' an me." "Idolatry, you mean, Darby?" "Yes, sir, that's what I mean." "Where is that letter of Mr. M'Clutchy's oh, I have it.
The negro had been obliged to paddle at least half a mile to come within speaking-distance of the cutter. "You done broke my boat in two pieces!" exclaimed the boatman, gazing at the two parts of the floating wreck. "Don't t'ink you is a frien' ob de colored man widin no limits at all, or you don't smash his boat like dat." "That was an accident, my friend," replied Christy.
That's all I can say, an' indeed all I know." "If it is widin the bounds of my power, I'll do it," returned the other; "but it's little I can do, God help me." "Nelly," said Mave, "will you go on to the cross-roads there, an' I'll be with you in a minute." The cross-roads alluded to were only a couple of hundred yards before them. The prophet's wife proceeded, and Mave renewed the conversation.
"An' why wudn't his palace be open to her," Judy continued with equal scorn. "He's afraid of her. She kem widin an ace o' spoilin' his chances o' goin' to London an' bowin' to the Queen. An, bedad, he's not sure of his futtin' while she's in it, for she has her mind on the place for Mr.
"Troth, Frank, wid the noise an' dancin', an' me bem' dark," replied Barny, shrewdly, "I can't take on me to say. For all you spake agin him, the sorra one of him but's a clane, dacent, spirited boy, as there is widin a great ways of him. Here's all your, healths! Faix, 'girls, you'll all sleep sound." "Well," said Mrs. M'Kenna, "the knowledge of that Darby More is unknowable!
He mopped his brimming eyes with a handful of cotton waste, not innocent of lubricating fluid. "Tower av Ivory! 'twas grand to see the contimpt av thim when the cowards widin did not reply. 'Donder! says the gaffer in the tay-thray hat and the beard like the grandfather av all the billygoats. 'Is this, he says, 'the British pluck they talk about?
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