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"Musha, Owen," said the poor woman, "you're the same man still; sure we all know your ways; I'll strive, avourneen, to ate I'll strive, asthore to plase you, an' the Lord bless you an' yours, an' may you never be as I an' my fatherless childhre are this sorrowful day!" and she accompanied her words by a flood of tears.
"Sir," said M'Evoy, "you are a Protestant; but, as I hope to enther glory, I an' my wife an' childhre will pray that your bed may be made in heaven, this night; and that your honor may be led to see the truth an' the right coorse."
He paused for a few minutes, bent his head upon his hands as he knelt in supplication at the chair, then resumed his seat, as did the whole family, deeply affected. "Now, childhre," said he, "I'll tell yez all; but don't any of you be so poor a crathur as I was to-day. Bear it mild an' asy, Vara, acushla, for I know it will take a start out of you. Sure we're to go back to our own ould farm!
"Thrue enough, indeed, I forgot that; an' yet we might, Kathleen. Sure we'd be worse, if we or the childhre had bad health." "God forgive me thin, for what I said! We might be worse. Well, but what is the plan, Owen?" "Why, when we got the childhre places, I'll sthrive to take a little house, an' work as a cottar. Then, Kathleen, we'd have a home of our own.
"Save you, save you, neighbor," he replied, without pronouncing the name of the deity. "This is a thryin' time," said Larry, "to them that has childhre." The fairy-man fastened his red glittering eyes upon him, with a sinister glance that occasioned Larry to feel rather uncomfortable. "So you venthured to come to the fairy-man?" "It is about our son, an' he all we ha "
But sure, at all evints, let his blessed will be done!" "Amin! amin! It's not right of any one to keep their hearts fixed too much upon the world; nor even, they say, upon one's own childhre."
If these two choose to let you and your childhre die or starve, I won't;" and she went to the meal to serve them as she spoke. The woman returned, and looked with considerable surprise at her; but Nelly went also to the meal, and was about to interpose, when Sarah's frame became excited, and her eyes flashed, as they always did when in a state of passion.
You know I'm a dacent father's child, an' I have stooped to you, Owen M'Carthy what I'd scorn to do to any other but yourself poor an' friendless as I stand here before you. Let them take the cows, thin, from my childhre; but the father of the fatherless will support thim an' me.
Why, your haner," said Purcel, after a little hesitation, "it sometimes goes up of a mornin' to waken the childhre, particularly when the buckwhist happens to be late. It doesn't like to be waitin'; and sure none of us likes to be kept from the male's mate, your haner, when we want it, no more than it, the crathur!"
"No, avourneen, you did not; for it wasn't in you to offind a child." "Alley, you'll pardon me an' forgive me acushla, if ever if ever I did what was displasin' to you! An' call in the childhre, till I see them about me I want to have their forgiveness, too. I know I'll have it for they wor good childhre, an' ever loved me." Blessed Queen of Heaven, what will we do!
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