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"God save all here!" said Fin, good-humouredly, on putting his honest face into his own door. "Musha, Fin, avick, an' you're welcome home to your own Oonagh, you darlin' bully." Here followed a smack that is said to have made the waters of the lake at the bottom of the hill curl, as it were, with kindness and sympathy.
An' th' ol' man'd take him walkin' on a Sundah, an' pint out th' rows an' rows iv houses, with th' childher in front gazin' in awe at th' great man an' their fathers glowerin' fr'm the windows, an' say, 'Thim will all be yours whin ye grow up, Dan'l O'Connell, avick. "Well, it didn't take an eye iv a witch to see that Dan'l O'Connell was a bor-rn idjet.
On entering, Denis requested to speak with his father and brothers in private. "Father," said he, "this night is pregnant that is, vulgariter, in the family way with my fate." "Throth, it is, avick. Glory be to Goodness!" "Here is Owen Connor, an honest, dacent neighbor " "Throth, he is an honest, dacent man, said the lather, interrupting him. "Yes," replied the son, "I agree with you.
"Ah!" said Darby, "had you taken a fool's advice but it can't be helped now the harm's done, I doubt; how-an'-ever, for the matther o' that, may be I have as good as Peggy in my eye for you; by the same token, as the night's could, warm your tooth, avick; there's waker wather nor this in Lough Mecall.
"'Ha, ha, ha! that's my stout man, my brave little soger! Wus dha lamh avick! give me your hand, my son! Here, Nelly, he would say to the child's eldest sister, 'give him a brave whang of bread, to make him able to bate the Caseys. Well, Lanty, who more will you leather, ahagur? "'All the Orangemen; I'll kill all the Orangemen!
"Och, captain, avick! och! och! come here till I eat you!" And she flung her arm round Robinson's neck, and bestowed a little furious kiss on him. Then she pranced away; then she pranced back. "Platinum, you are the boy; y'are the queen of the mitals.
He started, and awoke; but so terrific had been his dream, that on opening his eyes he clasped Connor in his arms, and exclaimed, "No no, I'll hould him till you cut my grip; Connor, avick machree, hould to me!" "Father, father, for God's sake, think a minute, you wor only dreaming."
"No wan knowed she had th' bicycle, because she wint out afther dark an' practised on it down be th' dump. But las' Friday ev'nin', lo an' behold, whin th' r-road was crowded with people fr'm th' brick-yards an' th' gas-house an' th' mills, who shud come ridin' along be th' thracks, bumpin' an' holdin' on, but Molly Donahue? An' dhressed! How d'ye suppose she was dhressed? In pa-ants, Jawn avick.
On my way home, I heard, as I was passin' the ould trees at the Rabbit Bank, things that I can't find words to tell you of." "Well acushla, glory be to God for everything! it's all his will, blessed be his name! What did you hear, avick? but wait till I throw a drop o' the holy wather that I have hangin' in the little bottle at the bed-post upon us."
I don't think there's a finer child in Europe of his age, so there isn't." "Indeed, he's a good child, Condy. But Condy, avick, about givin' credit: by thim five crasses, if I could give score to any boy in the parish, it 'ud be to yourself. It was only last night that I made a promise against doin' such a thing for man or mortual.
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