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Updated: June 4, 2025
As they approached the door, the husband hesitated a moment; his face got paler than usual, and his lip quivered, as he said "Kathleen " "I know what you're goin' to say, Owen. No, acushla, you won't; I'll ax it myself." "Do," said Owen, with difficulty; "I can't do it; but I'll overcome my pride afore long, I hope.
Can you make any hand o' the Latin at all yet?" "No, indeed," replied Jemmy, somewhat sorrowfully; "I didn't ever open a Latin book, at all at all." "Well, acushla, everything has a beginnin'; you won't be so. There's my house in the fields beyant, where you'll be well kept for one night, any way, or for twinty, or for ten times twinty, if you wanted them."
It's a cruel world, acushla, when people like them can't do as they'd wish to do. But, Susy, you're a child, and knows nothing at all about it." Felix and Alley walked on, unconscious of me ominous forebodings which the superstition of the affectionate woman prompted her to utter.
Without a word the bride entered the presence of her groom, and the doctor, bending low to the gambler, said: "Be careful now, Mart. Don't try to rise. Be perfectly still. Bertie has come." Haney turned with a smile a tender, humorous smile and whispered: "Bertie, acushla mavourneen, come to me!" Then the watchers withdrew, leaving them alone, and the girl, bending above him, kissed him.
The unspoken protest in the child's face was grown so passionate that he interrupted himself to answer it in a burst of sympathy. "Och, Moira, acushla, sure an' I know how 'tis to ye " And then with a reaction to virtue, he said sternly, "An' if they're not bad, why do they go when you call on the blessed saints?" At this the child's face twisted again for tears.
Tell me that you forgive me, acushla oge machree! Manim asthee ha, darlin', say it. I darn't look to God! but oh! do you say the forgivin' word to your father before you die!"
They're all good to me, as they ever wor to' us both, acushla machree; but poor Bryan, that you loved so much your favorite and your pride has had much to suffer, darlin', since you left us; but blessed be God, he bears it manfully and patiently, although I can see by the sorrow on my boy's brow that the heart widin him is breakin'. He's not, afther all, to be married, as you hoped and wished he would, to Kathleen Cavanagh.
Kiss me, Dick, acushla and God knows your face is pale, and that's not with good feeding, anyhow: Dick, agra, I'm sorry for what I done to you last night; forgive your father, Dick, for I think that my heart's breaking, acushla, and that you won't have me long with you. "Poor Dick, who was naturally a warmhearted, affectionate gorsoon, kissed his father, and cried bitterly.
He suddenly took her in his arms and pressed her to him and rocked her as though she were still a baby, and his voice trembled and was full of pity as he said: "Ye can't help it, acushla. Ye can't help it. Ye're NOT a coward, my own brave little Peg. It's yer mother in ye.
"For God's sake, Ettie, let it stand at that!" he cried. "Will you ruin your life and my own for the sake of this promise? Follow your heart, acushla! 'Tis a safer guide than any promise before you knew what it was that you were saying." He had seized Ettie's white hand between his own strong brown ones. "Say that you will be mine, and we will face it out together!" "Not here?" "Yes, here."
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