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I shall entertain the question, as they say; and it is not improbable but that I may dignify the fair Katsey with the honorable title of Mrs. Burke." "I wish you had spoken a little sooner, then," replied his father, "bekaise it so happens that Gerald Cavanagh an' I have the match between her and your brother Ned as good as made." "My brother Ned!
"Are the servants your authority for that?" "Indeed they are; Barney Casey knows a great deal about him. Now, Miss Alice, you're on your guard; have nothing to do wid him as a sweetheart; but above all things don't fall out wid him, bekaise, if you did, as sure as I stand here he'd wither you off o' the earth.
"Bekaise they think that he keeps too much company wid Prodestans, an' that he's half a Prodestan himself, and that it's only the shame that prevents him from goin' over to them altogether. Indeed, it's the general opinion among the Catholics " "Papishes! you old dog." "Well, then, Papishes that he will an' throth, I don't think the Papishes would put much trust in the same man."
She is now all we have to depend on, poor thing, an' it wrings my heart to catch her in lonesome places, cryin' as if her heart would break; for, poor thing, she's sorry sorry for her fault, an' for the shame an' sorrow it has brought her to; an' that's what makes her pray, too, so often as she does; but God's good, an' he'll forgive her, bekaise she has repented."
You see, sir, he was called Shaun Bernha bekaise he never had a tooth in his head; an' no more had any of his family; and yet, sir, it's said, that he could bite a piece out of a plate of sheet iron as aisily as you or I could out a cake of gingerbread." "Well, Morgue, all that I can say to that is, that he had devilish hard gums, and stood in no fear of the toothache."
Do you hear him," she exclaimed, laughing "never mind him, children! troth, he went at sich a snail's pace that one 'ud think it was to confession he was goin', and that he did nothing but think of his sins as he went along." "That was bekaise I knew that I had the penance before me," he replied, laughing also. "Any how," replied his wife, "our case was not like their's.
"That's bekaise this disturbance of your mind is too much for you yet but keep your spirits up; you don't know," she continued, smiling sweetly through her tears; "what a delightful prophecy was fulfilled for us this day ay, awhile ago, even when I met you." "No," he replied, "what was it?"
"Have you no better clothes than these?" "You see all that I have on me, shir." "Well, come, I'll give you the price of a suit rather than see such a scarecrow in my garden." "I couldn't take it, shir." "The devil you couldn't! Why not, man?" "Bekaise, shir, I'm under pinance." "Well, why don't you shave?" "I can't, shir, for de same raison."
"The master's goin' to them? bekaise I heard he wasn't able." "He's goin', he says, happen what may; he thinks it's his last visit to them, and I agree wid him he'll soon have a greater 'sizes and a different judge to meet." "Ay, Charley, think of that now; an' tell me, he sleeps in Ballynafail, as usual; eh, now?" "He does of course." "An' Jemmy Branigan goes along wid him?"
"That's mere weakness," said Frank; "but still, if you have any scruple, don't drink it; I bekaise the truth is, Art, you couldn't have a scruple that will do you more good than one against liquor." "Well, I'll only take this tumbler an' another to-night; and then we'll go to bed, plase goodness." His agitation then passed away, and he drank a portion of the liquor.
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