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It was the young president herself, Mollie Daley, though she had been brought up to think of colored folks as "trash," who, with a disregard of strict parliamentary law, but with a beautiful cordiality, broke in with: "I say, admit her at once, and let yez give her a hearty welcome."
"Talk all yez like now," the captain remarked, as he sat down upon a drift-log. "It'd be a pity to spoil yer enjoyment, seein' that soon ye won't be able to talk so free." By this time Rod had placed the clothes in a safe place and, coming back, sat down by the captain's side. "Did ye bring the guns with ye?" the latter asked. "Yes, here they are," and Rod held up two revolvers.
"'Tis a good idy," responded the banker. "I kin mague you de troub' to kib dad will fo' me Miché Vignevielle?" "Yez." She looked up with grateful re-assurance; but her eyes dropped again as she said: "Miché Vignevielle" Here she choked, and began her peculiar motion of laying folds in the skirt of her dress, with trembling fingers.
"I believe you're right, mother. I didn't see it before in the light you've placed it in." "Then, Pether darlin', lose no time in gettin' into your place you an' Alley; an' faix, if you don't both manage it cleverly, I'll never spake to yez." Here was a second son settled, and nothing remained but to dispose of their two daughters in marriage to the best and most advantageous offers.
On Sunday morning, about ten o'clock, Irish came rushing down stairs on the jump, rushed up to me, and said: "Be the Howly St. Crispin and Moses in the bulrushes! May the divil fly away wid me if I haven't found moy pants!" "Good! Good! Where were they?" "Howly Moses! come wid me to wan side. I'll tell yez on the quiet." "Never mind about the quiet, Irish. Sing out; tell everybody."
In our city the girls get four pounds for doin' next to nothin'. An' to see the dhress an' the shtyle o' thim fine girls! Why, yez cudn't tell them from their own misthresses. What wud yez be doin' in New York, wid yer clothes thrun on yez be a pitchfork, an' lukkin' as if they were made in the ark?
"There's a man wants to get board there, they're changing round in the rooms and they've no place for me. Mis' Callahan couldn't keep me 'less I'd get my pay raised." Mrs. Kilpatrick gave a quick glance at Mary Cassidy. "Come home with me then, till yez get a bite o' dinner, and we'll talk about it," she said kindly to the child. "I'd a wish for company the day."
"It'll take a whole lot of skinning for the sutlers to get even for the dose I've given one of them." "B'yes, yoi've done just splendid," said the Colonel, coming over to where Si and Shorty were sitting wringing the water and mud from their pantaloons and blouses. "You're hayroes, both of yez. Take a wee drap from my canteen. It'll kape yez from catching cold."
I'll crack sixpence betune yez when I get there. The lads, full of curiosity, lifted up the trunk, and preceded her up the mile or so of hill to Margret's. She stalked after them into the sunny kitchen where Margret sat waiting, handed them the sixpence when they had put down the trunk, bundled them out and shut the door before she looked towards Margret in her chimney-corner.
Why, oh, why should a woman with her graceful carriage and pretty vivacity have been cursed with such an ill-assorted lot of features! Especially when certain boorish young husbands have expressed an admiration for pink-and-white effects in femininity. "Never mind, Mr. Husband, I'll show yez!"
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