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How did he get his information so soon? Begad! I'm at a loose end, Little." "Foggy to me, too, skipper," returned the other thoughtfully. "One sure thing, though, is that some sweet little cherubs are looking after us, and that death's-head at the gate is a good Joss, apparently. I'll go and get the gold bags, Barry, then I'd better take up quarters at the post. What d' ye think?" "Go ahead, son.
"We toasted you, madam, in the carriage, in an excellent good glass of wine; toasted you fathom deep; the finest woman, with, begad, the finest eyes in Grünewald. I never saw the like of them but once, in my own country, when I was a young fool at College: Thomasina Haig her name was. I give you my word of honour, she was as like you as two peas."
"No, begad, we've fixed you and a man who's fixed to a seat in Parliament, and a pretty girl, with a couple of thousand a year, is fixed to no bad thing, let me tell you," said the old man. "Great Heavens, sir!" said Arthur; "are you blind? Can't you see?" "See what, young gentleman?" asked the other.
Thin we wint hand in hand to ould Mother Shadd like two little childher, an' she said 'twas no bad thing, an' ould Shadd nodded behind his pipe, an' Dinah ran away to her own room. That day I throd on rollin' clouds. All earth was too small to hould me. Begad, I cud ha' hiked the sun out av the sky for a live coal to my pipe, so magnificent I was.
Arthur Pendennis, I should neither be sorry nor surprised, begad! and if you object to ten thousand pound, what would you say, sir, to thirty, or forty, or fifty?" and the Major looked still more knowingly, and still harder at Pen. "Well, sir," he said to his godfather and namesake, "make her Mrs. Arthur Pendennis. You can do it as well as I."
Well, begad, from one thing, and one word, to another, Jack thought it was best to make up to her at wanst, and try if she'd accept of him for a husband; accordingly he put the word to her like a man, and she, making as if she was blushing, put her fan before her face and made no answer.
My boy's wife brings the horse, and begad, Pen goes in and wins the plate. That's what I call a sensible union. A couple like that have something to talk to each other about when they come together. If you had Cupid himself to talk to if Blanche and Pen were Cupid and Psyche, begad they'd begin to yawn after a few evenings, if they had nothing but sentiment to speak on."
And when Lady Rockminster made her appearance, there was not a trace of tears or vexation on Lady Clavering's face, but she was full of spirits, and bounced out with her blunders and talk, and murdered the king's English, with the utmost liveliness and good humor. "Begad, she is not such a bad woman!" the major thought within himself.
"'Tention, says the docthor; an' Love-o'-Women stud so. 'Now shut your eyes, sez the docthor. 'No, ye must not hould by your comrade. "'Tis all up, sez Love-o'-Women, trying to smile. 'I'd fall, docthor, an' you know ut. "'Fall? I sez. 'Fall at attention wid your eyes shut! Fwhat do you mane? "The docthor knows, he sez. 'I've hild up as long as I can, but begad I'm glad 'tis all done.
Divil a one livin' knows me betther than Toal Finigan, sure enough, boys." "Arra, Art, do you remember the day you crossed the weir, below Tom Booth's," pursued Toal, "when the river was up, and the wather jist intherin' your mouth?" "That was the day Peggy Booth fainted, when she thought I was gone; begad, an' I was near it." "The very day."
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