United States or Brunei ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
He'd be givin' you the chance to bring your own good news, Moike, do you see? Pat's the b'y to give other folks the chances as is their due. There's them that fond of gabblin' and makin' a stir that they'd have told it thimsilves, but sure O'Callaghan ain't their name."
To crown the irony, in the gathering darkness a gigantic flare of gas suddenly illuminated the roof of the castle, and in spite of the wind and the rain, these fiery letters could still be seen very plainly, "Long liv' th' B'Y 'HMED!" "That that is the wind-up," said the poor Nabob, who could not help laughing, though it was a very piteous and bitter laugh. But no, he was mistaken.
"I feel happy and contented. I feel that our troubles are about ended. I am very, very happy and contented." He lay down in his blanket. After a little he said: "B'y, I'm rather chilly; won't you make the fire a little bigger." I threw on more wood, and when I sat down I told him I should keep the fire going all night; for the air was damp and chill. "Oh, thank you, b'y," he murmured, "thank you.
"Brothers are made each wan to do his part, and be glad when wan and another gets up." But little Jim appeared discontented. All this praise of Andy quite took the edge off what he himself had received. His mother sighed. "But I'll not give him up yet," she thought after a moment. "No, I'll not give him up, for he's Tim's b'y, though most unlike him.
"Well, you mark my words, that b'y won't keep it a week." "Oh, I don't know," said Ravenslee, "he seemed quite content." "You took him to the theayter las' night, didn't you? Wastin' your good money, eh?" "Not very much, Mrs. Trapes," said her lodger humbly. Mrs. Trapes sniffed. "Anyway, it's a good thing you had him safe out o' the way, as it happens." "Why?"
Reynolds walked away with his head held very high and his neck very stiff. Of course, the boys had been expecting Frank would receive a challenge, and no small number had been watching the two lads. Immediately on Rupert's departure, Frank's friends came swarming around him, asking scores of questions. "Pwhat did th' b'y want wid yez, Frankie?" asked Barney Mulloy, eagerly.
Trapes indignantly. "Mr. Geoffrey, it's been Arthur ever since he was born, an' her scrinchin' an' pinchin' herself for the sake o' that b'y. O' course he likes sparrergrass so do I but I make shift with pertatoes or cabbidge or carrots an' so should he. Come now, Hermy, you take a bunch o' carrots instead; carrots is healthy an' cheap! Come now, is that sparrergrass to be carrots or not?"
A b'y that can give reasons can look after 'em wonderful, so he can, if he don't get so full of his reasons that he forgets the little b'ys entoirely. But Andy'll not be doin' that. I niver told you before, but your father's favorite brother was named Andy, and a great wan he was for reasons, as I've heard. "Now breakfast's ready, so 'tis. I took my toime to it, for permotions always takes toime.
"Oh, Maggie, you're like all the rest! Because you've a good husband of your own, you think every other girl must go and do likewise." "Now ye're foolin', Aileen, like as you used to at the asylum. But I mind the time when Luigi was the wan b'y for you I wonder, now, you couldn't like him, Aileen? He's so handsome and stiddy-like, an' doin' so well.
Believe me, sir, when I lets my heart feel again the fears o' last fall, I haven't no love left for Jim. No, sir! doin' what he done this summer, I haven't no love left for Jim. "'It's fish me an' Jagger wants, b'y, says he t' me, 'an' they's no one'll keep un from us. "'Dear man! says I, pointin' t' the scales, 'haven't you got no conscience? "'Conscience! says he. 'What's that?
Word Of The Day