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So Duchemin did nothing to discourage his voluntary shadow; but looking back from time to time, never failed to see that squat, round-shouldered figure in the middle distance of the landscape, following him with the doggedness of Fate. Toward evening, however, of a sudden between two glances the fellow disappeared as completely and mysteriously as if he had fallen or dived into an aven.
'I DON'T want to be onneighborly, he said, 'but I'll be aven wid some of 'em yit. It's almost impossible for a dacent man to live in sich a neighborhood and not be onneighborly, thry how he will. But I'll be aven wid some of 'em yit, marruk my wurrud.
Cassidy," called Madame over the little fence. "It's a beautiful day after the rain." "Aw, well now and is that you, Mrs. Adam?" enquired Judy, her little face peering out of the clouds of steam. "Sure it's yerself would be bringin' beautiful weather, aven if it was poorin'." Her voice was soft, her manner ingratiating, there was no sign of the warrior spirit beneath.
And once more I thought of O'mie and how his thin hand gripped mine when he said: "Most av all, don't niver forgit it, Phil, when the thing comes to you, aven in your strength. Most av all, above all sufferin', and natural longin' to live, there comes the reality av them words Aunt Candace taught us: 'Though I walk through the valley av the shadow av death, I will fear no evil."
"I don't trust him, O'mie, but he has a voice that deceives. I don't wonder, being a girl, Marjie is caught by it." "An' you, bein' a boy," O'mie mimicked, "Phil, you're enough to turn my hair rid. But never mind, ye can't trust him. Fur why? He's not to be trusted. If he was aven Injun clean through you could a little, maybe.
"What's that to you?" he asked, his eyes firing up. "I got drunk last night afther I set your husband free afther he tould me you was his wife. We're aven now, decaver! I saved him, and the divil give you joy of that salvation and that husband, say I." "Hoosban' " she exclaimed, "who was my hoosban'?" "The big grinning corporal," he answered.
"That's th' way I look at it," said Mr. Hennessy. "When 'tis an aven thing in th' prayin', may th' best man win." "Ye're r-right, Hinnissy," said Mr. Dooley, warmly. "Ye're r-right. An' th' best man will win." "Well," said Mr. Dooley, "I see be th' pa-apers that th' snow-white pigeon iv peace have tied up th' dogs iv war. It's all over now.
It was only a mirage of the sea, but to our crew it was the spectre of the Flying Dutchman a phantom ship had crossed our bow. Once in port, no more would we walk the deck of the Aven of Aberdeen. She had seen a ghost. I was in the streets of Arica, Peru, when the earth began to rock and reel. Buildings surged and fell, with a crashing noise. The dust rose dense, and darkened the sky.
I kenna how it is; it's nane o' your wild streams that wander desolate through a desert country, like the Aven, or that come rushing down in foam and thunder, ower broken rocks, like the Foyers, or that wallow in darkness, deep, deep in the bowels o' the earth, like the fearfu' Auldgraunt; an' yet no ane o' these rivers has mair or frightfuller stories connected wi' it than the Conan.
And had he not lived in prosperity with them ever since? Timothy started at the faëry number. "Twinty-one years? So 'tis, Father an' more! 'Tis twinty-one years to-day since I came, aven and true the seventh day of October. Sure, somethin' ought to happen on such a day oughtn't it?" "Happen?" queried Father Delancey.
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