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"What a strange girl she is!" thought Bertie. "Who would think, to hear her chattering now, she could have made that prim little speech? I must not go on too fast; it reminds me of that Irish girl who said, the first time I squeezed her hand, 'Ah, Captain Du Meresq, but you are such a bould flirt!"
Perhaps you shall see more by-and-by. For the present you will go to rest, for you must be fatigued. I will think to-night, to-morrow I will speak." "An', if I may make so bould," said Barney, glancing with a somewhat rueful expression round the hard earthen floor of the hut, "whereabouts may I take the liberty o' sleepin'?"
"'I'm pressed for time to-day, sez Judy as bould as brass; 'an' I've only come for Terence, my promust man. Tis strange to find him here the day afther the day. "Dinah looked at me as though I had hit her, an' I answered straight. "'There was some nonsinse last night at the Sheehys' quarthers, an' Judy's carryin' on the joke, darlin', sez I.
"Ye're an ould bould hand," sez he, sizin' me up an' down; "an' a jool av a fight we will have. Eat now an' dhrink, an' go your way." Wid that he gave me some hump an' whisky good whisky an' we talked av this an' that the while. "It goes hard on me now," sez I, wipin' my mouth, "to confiscate that piece av furniture, but justice is justice."
There the Rector performed two services a Sunday, celebrated the Holy Communion once a month, and preached his practical sermons, transcribed from his own execrable manuscript by a sedulous clerk. "I like," he said, "to look down upon my congregation to fire into them. The common people say I am a bould preacher, for I like to have my arms free, and to thump the pulpit."
The job wouldn't take long though, and they might expect to see him back within a twelvemonth, with enough in his pocket to drive away the devil and the coroner anyway. "Bould fellow!" said Cæsar. "Aw, deed on Pete!" said Grannie. "Now, if it wasn't for that Ross " said Nancy. Philip went into the dairy, where Kate was now skimming the cream of the last night's milking.
"There's a town about three miles down yonder, and a fine inn, I 'm tould, sir," replied he, as he scrutinized my appearance with a shrewd eye; "but if I might make so bould, maybe you 'd as lief not go there, and perhaps you 'd take share of what we have here?" "Willingly," said I, accepting the hospitable offer as freely as it was made, and entered the cabin at once.
Lane on Mister Jones, Major, said she hes young and will be a support to ye. Well, its a charming sight to see ye, anyway, at the Bould Dragoon; and sure its no harm to be kaping a Christmas eve wid a light heart, for its no telling when we may have sorrow come upon us. So good-night, Joodge, and a merry Christmas to ye all tomorrow morning.
Perhaps you shall see more by-and-by. For the present you will go to rest, for you must be fatigued. I will think to-night, to-morrow I will speak" "An', if I may make so bould," said Barney, glancing with a somewhat rueful expression round the hard earthen floor of the hut, "where-abouts may I take the liberty of sleepin'?"
'Oh, tare an ouns, says he unto himself, 'an' must I sit up all night, and that ould vagabond of a sperit, glory be to God, says he, 'serenading through the house, an' doin' all sorts iv mischief. However, there was no gettin' aff, and so he put a bould face on it, an' he went up at nightfall with a bottle of pottieen, and another of holy wather.
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