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"Your reverence, amn't I ?" "We don't want to hear about that window." Biddy began to fear she would have to give him a few pounds to quiet him. But, fortunately, Pat Connex came up the road, and she thought she might escape after all. "I hear, Pat Connex, you were dancing with Kate Kavanagh, I should say Kate M'Shane, and she went away to America this morning. Have you heard that?"
"I know that very well, your reverence; but, you see, God has given us the house." "God's House consists of little more than walls and a roof." "Indeed it does, your reverence; and amn't I saving up all my money for the window?" "But, my good Biddy, there is hardly any plastering done yet. The laths have come in, and there isn't sufficient to fill that end of the church, and I have no more money."
"Poor thing!" said Meldon. "It must have been a shock to her to catch sight of him like that. Where did she run to?" "To meet him, of course," said Callaghan. "To meet him! Be careful what you're saying now, Callaghan. It's more likely she ran the other way." "Amn't I telling you it was to meet him?
"Amn't I a pet!" cooed Amaryllis, deliberately subduing the chill of her first disappointment. "Dearest, see I have kept this last and loveliest set of garments for the morning of our home-coming and for you!" and she crept close to him and laid her cheek against his cheek. He encircled her with his arm and kissed her calmly. "You look most beautiful, darling," he said.
She glanced at his companion and started as if in fear, shivered, put out a hand and bade her welcome home. "Dear me! Miss Nan," said she, "amn't I proud to see you back? What a tall lady you have grown, and so like so like " She stopped embarrassed.
Me poor dada is gone where he's out of his throubles, please God; an' amn't I too well off myself here in this grand place, with me a'nt an' everywan so kind to me? Ye ought to be ashamed o' yourself, Elleney, to go cryin' an' frettin' when it's down on your knees ye should be, thankin' God. Hurry up now, an' on with your clothes an' get the breakfast!
"A believe that; A ken that, Aadam," returned old Loudon, dryly; "and the curiis thing is, I'm no very carin'. See here, ma man," he continued, addressing himself to me. "A'm your grandfaither, amn't I not? Never you mind what Aadam says. A'll see justice din ye. A'm rich." "Father," said Uncle Adam, "I would like one word with you in private." I rose to go.
There was a pig's head, and the cake cost eighteen shillings, and it was iced." "Never mind the food," said the priest, "tell me what happened." "Kate said that after coming back from Enniskerry, Michael Dunne said: 'Is this the wedding party? and that Ned jumped off the car, and said: 'To be sure. Amn't I the wedded man. And they had half a barrel of porter."
He had observed with wonder, amounting almost to awe, that she never giggled. "Score one for me!" She turned grey, mirthful eyes on his. "Amn't I learned? I read it in an article in an old Sociological Review a copy left here by a man whom father well, we needn't bother about that part of it. But the article was wonderful. I can't remember who wrote it."
Is there any of you hungry? Is there any of you goin' to die for want of food? Now's your time ho, ho! Now, Peggy, now. Amn't I doin' it? Ay, am I, an' it's all for your sake, Peggy dear, for, I swore by the broken heart you died of ay, an' didn't I tell you that last night on your grave where I slep'. No, he wouldn't he wouldn't but now now he'll see the differ ay, an' feel it too.
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