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When anything was put to him, he would say, "Aye, aye, b'ye," and take no further heed. He was utterly crushed by the disaster that had come so suddenly on the heels of his "good luck." He sat staring stonily ahead, deaf to our hopes and fears. Water we had in plenty as the day wore on.
I'll pay the twenty dollars all right." "No, no. De bett is not von. No? De bett vass 'who is de first on shore come, Heim? Goot. Ven de sheep comes to Falmouth ve goes on shore, you und me, together. Like dis, eh?" He seized Burke by the arm and made a motion that they two should thus step out together. Burke, shamefacedly, said: "Aye, aye, b'ye."
Bella was vastly pleased to find Marian was so tender of her sister, and desired she would not fail to come again at the same hour the next morning. So, after a mutual good b'ye, they separated for the present. Miss Bella had now, for the first time, tasted the pleasure of doing good.
Take that! She brought her hand down upon the figure outlined under the sheet with a resounding whack. The next second the thing leaped from the bed squarely into her arms. 'Wow! Murther! Mike, what have ye been doing? she howled, adding at the top of her voice, 'Patrick, Patrick, come quick! The b'ye has got hold of your hair restorer. He's all covered with hair and he's gone daft.
Ah, you blush: well, will you knit him another?" "Pshaw, Papa! Good b'ye, I am going to gather you a nosegay." But Ellinor was seized with a sudden fit of industry, and somehow or other she grew fonder of knitting than ever.
"O you ould villain!" said a stout Irish woman, "to try to ruin the poor b'ye. Hangin's too good for you." This was rather an extreme sentiment; but Haynes saw that he was in peril. He gave an unexpected spring, and, reaching the platform, sprang out, running up a side street. "Do you know him?" asked the detective of Frank. "Yes, sir." "How do you account for his hostility to you?"
I think of fables, as you call them, as much as ever, but am not able to speak them now; so, good b'ye, Robin, and let not the promise you have made me be like the flower of the wild rock-rose, which blooms and blights within a single day. When we indeed sit together, and read and pray, remember the pledge you have now given freely to one who will labour to make you happy all the day long."
He caught one sight of the visitor, and then made a dash for the window and slid clear to the ground, leaving pieces of shirt and his epidermis on every nail on the shed roof. The noise he made roused the father and mother below, and the latter started for the stairs. 'That b'ye 'll be the death av me yet, she complained.
Whooo-o. . . . Boom-m-m. A rocket! They were looking for us then! The pinnace must have been picked up! A cheer what a cheer! came brokenly from our lips; and we lashed furiously at the oars, steering to where a glare in the mist had come with the last report. Roused by the thrash of our oars, the old man sat up. "Whatt now, b'ye? Whatt now?" "Ship firin' rockets, sir," said Jones.
"Come and take a dish of tay with you in half an hour; you want a new tay-chest; something new and genteel." "I think we do," said Peter, rising and gently depositing the cat on the ground. "Aha! we'll see to it! we'll see! Good b'ye for the present in half an hour be with you!" The Corporal left alone with Jacobina, eyed her intently, and burst into the following pathetic address.
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