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Wheelwright, hoping that he was the bearer of agreeable tidings from his estates, threw him all but his last quarter, and Thady took his leave with, "Blissings on your honor, and long life to ye; and as your worship is a civil-spoken gintilman, may be ye'll not think it bowld if I jist hint to your honor, that if Misthress Judy there is a servant, she needs looking to and bad luck to her!"
"Well, it's a quare thing you should be singin' a song here," said Larry Hogan, "about Jim Barlow, and it's not over half a mile out of this very place he was hanged." "Indeed!" exclaimed all the men at once, looking with great interest at Larry. "It's truth I'm telling you. He made a very bowld robbery up by the long hill there, on two gintlemen, for he was mighty stout."
"By dad, we wor a great dale longer anyhow than he towld me he was." "To be sure we wor," said Barny; "he wint skulkin' in by the short cut, I tell you, and was afeard to keep a bowld offin' like me. But come, boys, let uz take a dhrop o' the bottle o' sper'ts we got out o' the brig.
"An' might I be so bowld to ax, Captain, is Bingal much farther nor Fingal?" "A trifle or so, Paddy?" "Och, thin, millia murther, weirasthru, how'll I iver get there at all at all?" roared out poor Barny. "By turning about, and getting back the road you've come, as fast as you can." "Is it back? O Queen iv Heaven! an' how will I iver get back?" said the bewildered Barny.
"You know the old saying, 'Don't throw out your dirty wather until you get in fresh." "Ah, darlin', don't be cruel to me!" said Andy, in a supplicating tone. "I know I'm not desarvin' of you, but sure I did not make so bowld as to make up to you until I seen that nobody else would have you." "Nobody else have me!" exclaimed Matty, as her eyes flashed with anger.
"For John bumpuss, aboord the Skooner fome "my darlin Jo, "ever sins you towld me yisterday that youd bin an gaged yerself into the fome, my mind has bin Onaisy. Ye no, darlint, from the our ye cald me yer own Susan in clare county More betoken iv bin onaisy about ye yer so bowld an Rekles, but this is wurst ov all. Iv no noshun o them sandlewood skooners.
Intense gravity marked the features of the groom, who stood, hat in hand, tapping the side of his top-boot with a silver-mounted riding-whip. Haco smiled grimly: "Ye was to wait an answer, was ye?" "If I may venture to make so bowld as to say so in the presence of your highness, I was." "Then wait," said Haco, smiling a little less grimly.
"Ah, sure now, that's a raisonable plan," said Squill with something of sarcasm in his tone; "an' if I might make so bowld I'd suggist that yoursilf, sor, shud give him the thrashin'." "Nay, I am far from being the strongest man of the crew. The one that is best able should do the job."
"'Then come along with me, Gramachree, And you'll see How happy you will be With your bowld sojer boy; 'Faith! if you're up to fun, With me run; 'T will be done In the snapping of a gun, Says the bowld sojer boy; 'And 't is then that, without scandal, Myself will proudly dandle The little farthing candle Of our mutual flame, my joy!
"We are glad to recayve ye in our r'y'l prisince. We cud give ye betther intertainmint in our r'y'l palace av the Escurial, only thim thayves av rebels won't let us. But we can maintain our state here in these sayquesthered mountains, an', begorra, we have a throne in the hearts av a bowld pisintry." By this time Russell had risen to his feet, and stood there bowing over and over again.
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