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If he gets over this, I have much to make up to him; for, indeed, I wasn't the father to him that I ought. Avick machree, now I feel it, may be whin it's too late." These words affected all who heard them, many even to tears. "I have no remedy," observed the judge. "Tipstaff, take away the witness to prison.
He was thinking of how welcome the priest's little round face had been to them all those long, tedious six weeks, and how cheery his voice sounded as he shouted, "Are ye needin' anything, Jimmy, avick? All right, I'll be back on Thursda', God willin'. Don't be frettin', now, man alive! Everybody has to have the smallpox. Sure, yer shaming the Catholics this year, Jimmy, keeping Lent so well."
On'y I say this here, that 'tis a black disgrace to Chicago f'r to let th' likes iv thim thrapze about th' sthreets with their cheap ol' flags an' ribbons. Oh dear, oh dear, if Pathrick's Day on'y come some year on' th' twelfth day iv July! Where 'd they be, where 'd they be? "D'ye know things is goin' to th' dogs in this town, Jawn, avick? Sure they are, faith.
"The devil a taste mad, my dear I'm only sick. Now just come over to me, like a decent creature, and give me the dhrop of comfort ye have. Come, avick." "Go over to you?" "Ay, and why not? or if it's so lazy ye are, why then I'll thry and cross over to your side." These words being accompanied by a certain indication of change of residence on the part of Mrs.
"Philip, avick, what do you mean?" exclaimed Nelly, in astonishment. "I mean," replied her husband, "that our cabin is so small and poor, and the castle near by so big and grand, that it's natural Providence should overlook us just, and attend to the affairs of the quality. It's the way of the world." "It may be the way of the world, but it's no the way with God, Philip.
"'Jemmy avick, says I, 'dull, dull will it be widout ye here. And, Jemmy send some av my heart back to me when ye write, as ye promise to do. May the Lord do so to me, an' more also, if I cease from lovin' ye till my life's end. "So we kissed like a pair av girls, and off he was driven, leavin' a great hollow inside the rim av the hills.
"Well, avick, in good time still; but there's a blessed book, if you can get it, that has a prayer in it, named the Thirty Bays' Prayer, an' if ye jist repate that same, every day for thirty days fastin', there's no request ye'll ax from heaven, good, bad, or indifferent, but ye'll get. And now do you begrudge givin'me what I got?" "Not a bit," said I, "and I'll certainly look for the book."
About this time twelve months no, faix, I'm wrong, it was afore Dan's marriage I had thoughts o' spakin' ta you about it, but somehow it left my head. Upon my word, I'm in airnest, Ellish." "Well, avick, make your mind asy; I'll have one from Dublin in less nor a fortnight. I can thin go about of an odd time, an' see how Dan an' Pether's comin' an.
"No, no, avick, don't be thinking about the likes; take a fool's advice, and never go next to near them ugly black walls again the longest day you have to live; an' I'd take my davy, it's what it's the same word the priest himself id be afther sayin' to you if you wor to ax his raverence consarnin' it, for it's plain to be seen it was nothing good you seen there, and there's neither luck nor grace about it."
"Barney, troth you ought to have more sinse, avick, than to be quarrellin' wid poor Jemmy about gettin' an you. Don't you know he's but a child, an' must of coorse get his little things an before you, espishially as this is the first Sunday of the crathur's new jacket an' throwsers.
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