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No," she continued, the pride of the mother having been touched, "my boy will never beg no, avourneen you never will nor shame or disgrace will never come upon him aither. Have you no trust in God, Fardorougha?" "God never helps them that neglect themselves, Honora."
"No, avourneen, no, I won't say what I was goin' to mintion. I won't indeed, Ellish, dear; an' forgive me for woundin' your feelin's alanna dhas. I dunna what put her into my head at all; but I thought you wor jokin' me about my eyes: an' sure if you war, acushla, that's no rason that I'd not allow you to do that an' more wid your own Pether.
Fardorougha was silent for some time after her last observations but at length he observed: "Would it be possible, Honor, that all this was brought upon us in ordher to punish me for for " "To punish you, Fardorougha? Fareer gaih avourneen, arn't we all punished? look at my worn face, and think of what ten days' sorrow can do in a mother's heart think, too, of the boy.
Fadher, never, attimpt to argue or display your ignorance wid me again. But, moreover, I can probate you to be an ungrammatical man from your own modus of argument." "Go an, avourneen. Phadrick!!" "I'm listenin'. The sorra's no match for his cuteness, an' one's puzzled to think where he can get it all."
"Ha, ha, ha! well, you're the dickens of a girl, sure enough; but come, avourneen, don't be makin' me laugh now, but tell me what answer I'm to give Mark." "Tell him to go to Dublin, like Thogue; he lives in the upper part of the town, and Thogue in the lower, and then there will be a beauty in each end of it."
"Why, Father dear, I do my best, avourneen; an' I ought of a sartinty to know it, bekase blessed Friar Hagan spent three dys instructin' Mat and myself in it; an' more betoken, that Mat sent him a sack o' phaties, an' a bag of oats for his trouble, not forgettin' the goose he got from myself, the Micklemas afther. Arrah how long is that ago, Katty a-haygur?" said she, addressing her companion.
'Twas little thought I had, when I came away this mornin', that I'd meet wid so much friendship on my journey. I hope it's a sign that God's on my side in my undertakin'!" "I hope so, avourneen I hope so, an' it is, too," replied the farmer, taking the pipe out of his mouth, and mildly whiffing away the smoke, "an' God'll be always on your side, as long as your intentions are good.
"Ay, indeed," she would proceed "troth an' conscience, Hugh, avourneen" avourneen being pronounced with a civil bitterness that was perfectly withering "troth an' conscience, Hugh, avourneen, it's truth you're speaking, and not only that, Hugh darling, but he's as dark as the old dioul betimes, so he is, and runs into such fits of blackness and anger, for no reason Hugh, dheelish, for no reason in life, man alive.
"Ned," said his brother, "are his feet and toes loose?" "Musha, but that's more than myself knows," replied Ned "Are they, Katty?" said he, inquiring from the sister of the deceased. "Arrah, to be sure, avourneen!" answered Katty "do you think we would lave him to be tied that way, when he'd be risin' out of his last bed at the day of judgment?
"Well yer parents isn't both livin' it's likely?" "No." "Aye! but yell jist not forget that same, ye see; I b'lieve I sed so your father dead, I suppose?" "No, my mother." "Your mother; well, avick, I didn't say that for a sartinty; but still, you see, avourneen, maybe somebody could a tould ye it was the mother, forhaps, afther all." "Did you know them?" I asked.
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