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She was about the same age as Kitty, and the owld woman took her out of kindness and brought them up together. She got to be jist as ugly a looking a gal as Tom was a man. Her hair was redder than his, and her face was just that freckled that yees couldn't tell which was the freckle and which was the skin itself.
"The crowd at the dure, sor, is dishpersed," the janitor reported. "A couple av cops kem along an' fanned 'em. They're askin' fer the two av yees," with a careless nod to the policeman and detective. "Yeh heard what I said," Hickey answered the officer's look.
Why don't yees kneel with me, an' let us join in one curse; one, no, but let us shower them down upon him in thousands in millions; an' when we can no longer spake them, let us think them.
Bring me the book, one of YEES, out of the landlady's parlour.
Munro, shure here's a card for yees," handing me a lady's card. "Who left it, Bill?" I hurriedly asked, taking it to the flaring gaslight on the stairway. "Two ladies in a carriage an old 'un and a pretty young lady, shure. They charged me giv' it yees, and druv' off." "And why didn't you bring it in, you blockhead?" I shouted, for it was Bessie Stewart's card.
He couldn't choke himself afther he was dead. I wouldn't belave it, not if I see him turn black in the face. It's yerself'll get choked some day if yees don't quit blatherin'. But what did ye get for yer blowin'? Any more'n the clothes ye're got to yer back?" For answer Glover dipped into his pockets, took out two handfuls of gold pieces and chinked them under the Irishman's nose.
Hah! very well we'll talk about that to-morrow. Mr. Tomkins, do me the favour to put him in the report: I may forget it. And pray, sir, how long is it since he has put more on? 'Just this moment, sir, as I came aft. 'Very well, we'll see to that to-morrow. You bring the kettle aft as soon as it is ready. I say, Mr. Jem, is that fellow sober? 'Yees, sir, he be sober as you be.
It was misery druv 'em to it, every one; perhaps it might hav' druv me the same way, if I'd a lot o' childer, and Johnny gone to glory and the blessed saints save him from that same at all at all!" "What! from going to glory?" said John. "Och, thin, and wouldn't I just go mad if ever such ill luck happened to yees as to be taken to heaven in the prime of your days, asthore?"
"Blazes! ye're lousy wid money," commented Sweeny. "Ye want somebody to scratch yees." "Twenty thousan' dollars in bank," added Glover. "All by blowin' 'n' tradin'. Goin' hum in the next steamer. Anythin' I can do for ye, old messmate? Say how much." "It's the liftinant is takin' care av me. He's made a betther livin' nor yees, a thousand times over, by jist marryin' the right leddy.
Yer see I'm compelled to be in St. Louey at the end of six months and hain't got a day to spare." "Mister Harvey has money, or, if he hasn't, he has friends in St. Louis, be the same token, that has abundance of it, and you'd find it paid you bitter in the ind than catching poor, innocent beavers, that niver did yees harm." "I don't foller sich business for money, but I've agreed to be in St.
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