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Updated: June 30, 2025
The women were rockin' in rows, their di'mond belts clickin', an' the tears runnin' out betune their hands, an' the lights were goin' lower an' dharker. Thin there was a blaze like lightnin' from the roof, an' that showed me the inside av the palanquin, an' at the end where my foot was, stood the livin' spit an' image o' mysilf worked on the linin'. This man here, ut was.
"I'm a civilian now," said Mulvaney. "Cud you tell that I was iver a martial man? Don't answer, sorr, av you're strainin' betune a complimint an' a lie. There's no houldin' Dinah Shadd now she's got a house av her own. Go inside, an' dhrink tay out av chiny in the drrrrawin'-room, an' thin we'll dhrink like Christians undher the tree here. Scutt, ye naygur-folk!
'Tis little wan poipe av tobacca wud count for betune six starvin' savigees." "Wot I wants," growled the Reserve man, "is to over-'aul a bacca factory afire, and clap my mouth to 'er chimbley-shaft. So take it back, Corporal. It's no manner o' good to me!" All the other voices joined in the chorus, and the be-papered pipe was thrust back upon its owner.
"Faix, the bridges betune oursels and civiloization are all broke down!" exclaimed Felix McGavonty, who sometimes used his Milesian dialect in order, as he put it, not to lose his mother's brogue. "Not so bad as that, Felix; for there is considerable civilization lying around loose in Borneo," replied Louis Belgrave. "Not much of it here is found," added Achang Bakir, the Bornean.
"Wasn't I tellin' your Ladyship the pots and pans and the few little bright cans among them, and not a penny betune the two poor souls, nor they knowing where to turn to!" "Where are they now?" Lady O'Gara asked quietly. "They're in my house, your Ladyship. I brought them back there last night an' I gev it up to them. I slep' in the loft over the stables myself."
O no, I'll depend my life an the nor-aist coorse, and God help any that comes betune me an' it, I'd run him down if he was my father." "Well, good by, Barny." "Good by, and God bless you, your honor, and send you safe." "That's a wish you want for yourself, Barny, never fear for me, but mind yourself well."
"'An' now'? she sez, lookin' at him; an' the red paint stud lone on the white av her face like a bull's-eye on a target. "He lifted up his eyes, slow an' very slow, an' he looked at her long an' very long, an' he tuk his spache betune his teeth wid a wrench that shuk him. "'I'm dyin', Aigypt dyin', he sez; ay, those were his words, for I remimber the name he called her.
Jarmy didn't wish to say much about it; so he tould them if they'd fairly acknowledge it an' pay him betune them for the sheep, he'd dhrop it. My father an' Andy Bradly did so, an' there it ended; but purshue the morsel of mutton ever they tasted in the mane time.
Look you, avic, have ye seen a brig or a brig's crew anywhere betune this and the north pole? try, now, an' remimber."
'Shaint Agnus Eve, he calls ut. Over an' over he kept repeathin' thim as he helped me shtaggerin' along. . . 'God! cries he, betune cursin' me an' th' dogs an' singin' 'Shaint Agnus Eve' 'Oh, help us this night! let us live, God! . . . oh, let us live! this poor bloody Oirishman an' me! . . ."
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