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For some reason not difficult to guess, the suggestion had a galvanic effect on the bewildered one. His hands trembled as he raised them imploringly to the screen. "Oh, gov'nor, wot have I done? Ain't I been on de level wid yez? Say, I ain't never even seen yez for de fourteen months I've been yer gobetween.
Ye'll not slape, and ye'll not warm up. Look at ye now. You've an ague." "I was sick at Limerick wan night," O'Brien hurried on, "an' the dochtor cudn't bleed me. But after slapin' a few hours an' gettin' warm in bed the blood came freely. It's God's truth I'm tellin' yez. Don't be murderin' me!" "His veins are open now," the captain said. "'Tis no use leavin' him in his pain.
"Look here, now," said Mary Ellen, in an aside, to us, "he seems a nice ould gentlemin enough, but think av the throuble ye got us in over Giftie, sure I won't have yez experimentalling wid grandfathers." Granfa appeared to have overheard, for he spoke up. "I just want to bide here a little while, my dearie, till I hear from my son in South Americer.
Shure I could pick the eye out o' yez shure I could shoot a louse off yer ear, says I. 'Anger me, says I, 'an' I'll murther the whole parish; raise a stick to me, an' I'll shlaughter the whole counthry side. An' wid that I cocked me little shootin'-iron. "Ye should have seen that shebeen-keeper; ye should have seen the whole o' them whin I raised me voice an' lifted me little Colt!
And didn't his nose touch me own?" "Did he look pale and excited?" asked the coroner. "No, yer Honor; his face was red as a brick, an', though it was a cowld night, he looked to be warm wid fasht walkin'." "Did he say anythin'?" "No; he only axed for a light." "Was his 'pearance 'spicious?" "No, yer Honor, more'n yer own. No offince to yez." "That'll do, Mr. O'Dougherty. Next witness."
Wernberg locked himself in, do you?" "I shouldn't think he would," Mr. Cook admitted. "But if he didn't do it, who did? That's what I'd like to know." "Mr. Wernberg wasn't the only man in the house, you know," said Bob. "Who else was there?" "Didn't Hugh and two of the detectives chase another man?" "Yez mean the fake detective?" asked Sergeant Riley. "I do." "But wasn't he in the same gang?
"Well, tell her to come to me, and I'll write a charm for it, that'll cure her. What kept you' till now, Paddy Magouran?" "Couldn't come any sooner, sir." "You couldn't, sir and why, sir, couldn't you come any sooner', sir?" "See, sir, what Andy Nowlan done to my copy." "Silence, I'll massacree yez if yez don't make less noise." "I was down with Mrs. Kavanagh, sir."
"Order!" said Peter to the crowd. "No," continued Dennis, in answer to the audible remarks of the opposition. "It's no names Oi'm callin'. If yez know such a beast, such a snake, fit it to him. Oi'm mentionin' no names. As Oi was sayin', Misther Chairman, Oi'll not waste the time av this meetin' wid discribin' the conduct av a beast so vile that he must be the contempt av every honest man.
Let me go, acushla; it does cut me to the heart to lave yez the way yez are in, even for a while; but it's far worse to see your poor wasted faces, widout havin' it in my power to do anything for yez." He then kissed them again, one by one; and pressing the affectionate partner of his sorrows to his breaking heart, he bade God bless them, and set out in the twilight of a bitter March morning.
It's what I never taught you, nor never will tache you to the day of my death! To be sure, a fellow-creature may say, 'Help me, my brother, I am distressed, or, 'I am bent on a good purpose, that your kindness can enable me to accomplish. But suppose that you have not the money about you at the time, wouldn't you feel sorry to the back-bone? Ay, would yez to the very core of the heart itself.
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