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'My mither wor a Papist. A curious change of expression appeared on 'Lias's face. He put his hand behind his ear that he might hear better, turned a pair of cunning eyes on David, while his lips pressed themselves together. 'Your mither wor a Papist? an your feyther wor Sandy Grieve. Ay, ay I've yeerd tell strange things o' Sandy Grieve's wife, he said slowly.
Hycy, having bade him good night at the hall-door, returned again to the parlor, and called Nanny Peety "Nanny," said he, "which of the Hogans did you see to-day?" "None o' them, sir, barrin' Kate: they wor all out." "Did you give her the message?" "Why, sir, if it can be called a message, I did." "What did you say, now?"
The future had something tangible for his grasp now; and he only grudged every hour spent away from his sphere of labour as an opportunity of advantage lost. 'They wor very kind to us, observed Andy, from his elevation in the waggon; 'an' this counthry bates all the world at 'ating and dhrinking.
"Be near me, Pether; stay wid me I'm very lonely. Is this you keepin' my head up?" "It is, it is! I'll never lave you till till" "Is the carman come from Dublin wid wid the broadcloth?" "Father of heaven! she's gone back again!" exclaimed the husband. "Father, jewel! have you no prayers that you'd read for her? You wor ordained for these things, an' comin' from you, they'll have more stringth.
You hev' grounds for believin' 'at theer is what?" "Strong grounds!" replied the detective, "and equally strong ones for believing the man came there by foul play, too." "Say no more!" said Shepherd. "T' mystery shall be cleared up. Deary me! An' to think 'at I've walked past yon theer pit many a dozen times within this last few o' months, and nivver dreamed 'at theer wor owt in it but watter!
"An' Lee went closer to where the gurl was waitin'. His party follered an' I follered too.... Jest whin the moosic sthopped an' the gurl looked up thin she seen Lee. Roight out he sthepped away from the crowd. He wuz whiter 'n a ghost. An' the gurl she seemed paralyzed. Sthrange it wor to see how she an' him looked alike thin.
But it ain't long really. It seems very short to look back on. I ain't forty yet, Cecile; and that's counted no age as lives go; but I never for all that had a moment. When I wor very young I married; and afore I married, I had only time for play and pleasure; and then afterward Lovedy came, and her father died, and I had to think on my grief, and how to bring up Lovedy.
He wor givin' we a bit of a lecture loike, on lions and tigers, and ryenosed-horses, and such-loike beasts, and on they queer creatures wot lived before the flood. Lord! there was one beast with a long neck, and paddles for swimmin' with, as made we all ready to bust with laughin' when him showed us the pictur' of his skeleton. 'Does he often give you a lecture of that kind?
'Aye, they're a poor lot, returned David, shortly, and walked on as far in front of his uncle as might be, with his head in the air and his moody look fixed on the distance. 'T' Wigsons ull be late gettin whoam, began Reuben again, with an uneasy look at the boy. 'Owd Wigson wor that full up wi yell when I last seed him they'll ha a job to get him started straight this neet.
"Faith, an' it's no wondher I would, sir, when it's to tell you that you'll find your father a murdhered corpse at home before you." "Great God! what do you mean, sir? asked John. "Why, gintlemen, it seems that himself an' Parson Turbot wor both shot in the parsonage garden to-day. The parson's takin' his rest in his own house, but your father's body was brought home upon the car.
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