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If he hasn't these things he won't succeed in pollytics or packin' pork. Ye niver see a big man in pollytics that dhrank hard, did ye? Ye never will. An' that's because they're all marrid. Th' timptation's sthrong, but fear is sthronger." "Th' most domestic men in th' wurruld ar-re politicians, an' they always marry early. An' that's th' sad part iv it, Hinnissy.
Nawthin'd please me betther thin to turn me back on th' wicked an' ingloryous past, rayform me life, an' live at peace with th' wurruld to th' end iv me days. But how th' divvle can I do it? As th' fellow says, 'Can th' leopard change his spots, or can't he?
But to-day, whiniver I see wan I turn pale an' take off me hat an' make a low bow. A few years ago an' I'd bet I was good f'r a dozen iv thim. But I didn't know how tur-rible a people they are. Their ships are th' best in th' wurruld. We think we've got good ships. Th' Lord knows I'm told they cost us enough, though I don't remimber iver payin' a cent f'r wan.
Ye'd better had had a dog, or a gun, or a ladder, or a horse, or a saddle, or a quart o' brown brandy; but such as it is I give it ye I give it to the rose o' the valley and the star o' the wide wurruld." In a loud voice he read the promissory note, and handed it to Ida. Men laughed till there were tears in their eyes, and a keg of whisky was opened; but somehow Ida did not laugh.
Swedenborgian bran fried in kerosene makes th' best breakfast dish in th' wurruld. 'Twus nice to r-read. It made a man feel as if he was in church asleep." "How did th'pa-aper sthrike th' people?" says ye. "Oh, it sthruck thim good.
But Casey, fearful of Mr. Quilty's descriptive powers, saw fit to interrupt. "Hello! What's all the row? That you, Corney?" "Yer owner has saved yer life," Mr. Quilty informed Feng. "Sure ut's me, Casey. I'm after l'arnin' this Oriental curse iv the wurruld how to talk to his betters." He mounted the steps, peering suspiciously at the occupants of the veranda. "Who's these?" he demanded.
'Tis nothin' I had to give-divil a cent in the wurruld, divil a pound av baccy, or a pot for the fire, or a bit av linin for the table; nothin' but meself and me dirty clothes, standin' seven fut three an me bare toes. What was I to do? There was only meself to give, so I give it free and hearty, and here it is wid the Queen's head an it, done in Mr. Tarlton's office.
The things he does my, my, the things be does!" She threw up her hands with an air of distraction. "Well, and what does he do, Madame?" asked the Avocat simply. "An' what he says, too the awful of it! Ah, the bad sour heart in him! What's he lyin' in his bed for now an' the New Year comin' on, whin we ought to be praisin' God an' enjoyin' each other's company in this blessed wurruld?
'Th' navy iv th' United States, he says, 'which is wan iv th' best, if not th' best, in th' wurruld, he says, 'was not, he says, 'intinded f'r sthreet fightin', he says. 'We'll stay here, he says, 'where we ar-re, he says, 'until, he says, 'we can equip th' ships with noomatic tire wheels, he says, 'an' ball bearin's, he says.
Th' Jews has th' first down fine, but all th' rest iv th' wurruld is at home in th' second. So Jools's all r-right as far as he goes. But he don't go far. "Well, whin Jools hear-rd that his frind th' butcher was sloughed up, he wint fairly wild. He says to himsilf, he says, 'I'll go home, he says, 'an' defy th' governmint, he says. 'I'll start a rivolution, he says.
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