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"Stop a minute, papa," she urged when he took hold of her arm to draw her from the rail. "Do look! they have all left him now they have killed him. I wonder what they quarrelled about?" "Sure, an' just for the same rayson, missy, that Christians hate sich other," said Mr McCarthy, "just for no cause at all, but bekaze they can't help it, alannah!
"Be dhe husth,* hould your tongue, Misther Morrow," said he; "Biddy avour-neen," he continued, addressing Biddy and Bessy, "and Bessy, alannah, just take a friend's advice, and never mind going to wakes; to be sure there's plenty of fun and divarsion at sich places, but healths apiece!" putting the pint to his lips "and that's all I say about it."
"Why, my bit of a girl, it's good to see you!" he cried. "And who is this young lady?" "This is my cousin, Molly Hartrick. Molly, may I introduce you to Squire Murphy?" "Have a grip of the paw, miss," said Squire Murphy, holding out his great hand and clasping Molly's. "And now, what can I do for you, Nora alannah? 'Tis I that am glad to see you.
I'm not going to leave my counthry for nobody. The cot where I was born shall see me die; and if the roof is took off, why, I'll put it back again. I'll defy him and his new-fangled ways and his English wife to the death. You'll see mischief if you don't put things right, Miss Nora. It all rests with yez, alannah."
Her mother told her. "Yes, appendicitis, that's what she said. I never knowed there were so many places inside a person to go wrong, did ye, ma? I just thought we had liver and lights and a few things like that." "Don't worry, alannah," her mother said soothingly, as she cut out the other leg of Jimmy's pants. "The Lord made us right I guess, and he won't let anything happen to us."
"Hullo, old chap," said I, "what's up?" "Faith, Tom, Oi'm onaisy in me moind, sure, about Jocko," he replied. "Oi don't want yer sisther to be afther sayin' him at foorst. Sure, Oi want to take her be surprise, alannah." "Well," said I, "that needn't trouble you, Mick. Let's put the little beggar over the garden wall." "But, s'posin' onywun's theer?"
I'll moind my paychant now till that old thaife Weston's finished all the schraps lift in the plates an' bottles from lunch; an' thin, faith, he shall take charge of him an' I'll come up too, to say the foon. Now, be off wid ye, colonel, dear; you'll say the poor chap ag'in afther the rumpus is over. Dick Haldane, me darlint, hind the colonel the loan of yer arrum, alannah.
And look at you, with your elegant features and your oh, but it's genteel you are! and I love you, Nora alannah; I love you, and am not a bit jealous of you." Here the impulsive girl threw her arms round her friend's neck and kissed her. "All the same," she added, "I wish those clouds were not coming up.
As the big murdering rascal stumbled back, I thrust forth my arm holding the officer's sword and sent the blade right through the beggar's stomach up to the hilt. "Be the powers, me joker," cried a voice behind me, as sheik and `Gyp' and I all fell together on the ground in one batch, "ye did that well, alannah! Begorrah, it wor roight in his bri'd-basket, sure!" "My goodness!"
"Whare now is ye hoort, Tom, alannah?" "Oh, it's nothing," I said with a laugh, as soon as I got back my breath, which had been knocked out of me by the rush `Ugly' made, the knife having only grazed my ribs, while it had given an ugly gash to my arm; though, probably, had I not guarded the blow, the sharp weapon with which my antagonist had only been supplied, like the rest of us, that very morning, would as likely as not have `settled my hash, as father used to say.
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