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'Was you though? said Ortheris; 'now that's extry-ordinary! 'Orth'ris, said Mulvaney, 'av you opin thim lips av yours again, I will, savin' your presince, Sorr, take you by the slack av your trousers an' heave you. 'I'm mum, said Ortheris. 'Wot 'appened when you was a recruity? 'I was a betther recruity than you iver was or will be, but that's neither here nor there.
"If my sisther met with a misfortune, it was many a betther woman's case than ever you'll be. Don't shout till you get out of the wood, ma'am. You dunna what's afore yourself.
And Nurse said it was down somewhere, and I came out to look for fresh eggs to give Gran'ma a surprise for breakfast." "And now what would be your name, little lady, an' who would be your gran'ma?" "My name is Terencia Mary, and my grandmama is Madam Trimleston," said Terry. The man gave a whistle of surprise. "Faith and Missus Nancy might look afther ye betther," he said.
"An' my son," said Larry, "is husband enough for a betther girl nor ever called you father not makin' little, at the same time, of either you or her." "Paddy," said Burn, "there's no use in spakin' that way. I agree wid Antony, that you ought to throw in the 'slip." "Is it what I have to pay my next gale o' rint wid? No, no! If he won't marry her widout it, she'll get as good that will."
"Faith, ye're roight, sor; we'd betther count noses an' have the job over," returned Garry, sotto voce, singing out in a louder key to the survivors of the fray, who were grouped in the waist about the mainmast, where the remaining Haytians who had not been killed outright were tied up feet to the wrists, as the skipper had told Colonel Vereker when he came up.
Was there any wan in the Ould Rig'mint to touch Corp'ril Terence Mulvaney whin that same was turned out for sedukshin? I niver met him. Ivry woman that was not a witch was worth the runnin' afther in those days, an' ivry man was my dearest frind or I had stripped to him an' we knew which was the betther av the tu.
Grashthias! throth I'm the betther o' that sup, so I am. Nothin' keeps this thief of a configuration down but it. Dheah Grashthias for that! Oh, thin, this is the stuff! It warms the body to the top o' the nails!" "Don't spare it, Darby," said old Reillaghan, "if it does you good."
One never knows exactly whether to laugh or cry over them, catching their chatter as they file past the show-windows of the long, showy street. "Look a' that pink silk with the figures on it!" "I've seen them as is betther nor that in the ould counthree. Patsy Malorrn, let alon' hangin' onto the shawl of me!"
Instead of one batin' a day, father, thry no batin' a day, an' maybe it 'ill turn out betther than thump-in' an' smashin' her as you do." "Why, thin, there's truth and sinse in what the girl says, Tony," observed Denis. "Come," replied Anthony, "whatever she may say I'll suffer none of your interference. Go an' get us the black bottle from the place; it'll soon be time to move.
Tain't no use to bring't, a bit; for we have more noo than we've got watter for; and then yow'll come grummle, grummle, grummle, because 'tisn't doone; sow yow'd betther tak't somewheres else." "Knock, knock; rap, rap, rap," came the summons at the gate again; and this time, instead of muttering and "grumbling" to himself, Dusty Bob got up and went to see who was there.
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