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The old man, having obediently deposited the box in the region of upstairs, shuffled down again, and approached Eily gently. "Are you her niece, my poor girl?" he whispered, with a backward glance in the direction of his departed spouse. "I am, sorr," answered Eily; "I am come to help me aunt wid the claning and the lodgers." "Poor child! poor child!
Little Byrne, however, was quite affable, and allowed me to try on his livery, including the coveted big silver arm-badge and his top-boots. In my borrowed plumes I gave the stablemen to understand that I was as good as engaged already as postilion. Byrne informed me of some of the disadvantages of the position. "The heart in ye would be broke at all the claning them leathers requires."
Christopher Coney was silenced, and as he could get no public sympathy, he mumbled his feelings to himself: "Be dazed, if I loved my country half as well as the young feller do, I'd live by claning my neighbour's pigsties afore I'd go away! For my part I've no more love for my country than I have for Botany Bay!"
Before I could speak, he said: "Av ye plaze, sorr, will yez be having any carrpets to bate? I'm taking orders against the sphring claning, sorr." "Oh! are you?" said I. I began to feel very sorry for myself, very sorry, indeed, at this supreme instant. "Do you live near here?" I further inquired. "Shure and I do, sorr. Jist beyant yez. I pass yez every day in the week.
That was Patrick's sport, and fight he would, ivery chance, from the time whin he was a bit of a lad, ten years ould, and bunged the ould schoolteacher's eyes in the parish school-house. Will, he got a good berth in a saloon in the Bowery, where they used Patrick in claning out the customers whin they got noisy, and he'd do it nately too, to the satisfaction of his employer.
"Ah! then, it's little good claning of ye!" for well had he learned in the hall below that eight miles of a stiff clay soil lay between the manor and Bolsover Abbey, whose picturesque ruins, "Like ancient Rome, majestic in decay," the party had determined to explore.
'A real stream of water, a real mill- wheel, and real fowls, and everything! 'Yes, 'tis real enough, said Loveday, looking at the river with balanced sentiments; 'and so you will say when you've lived here a bit as mis'ess, and had the trouble of claning the furniture.
"Ah! then, and it's little good it'll be the claning of ye," apostrophized Mr. Barney Maguire, as he deposited, in front of his master's toilet, a pair of "bran new" jockey boots, one of Hoby's primest fits, which the lieutenant had purchased in his way through town.
"Claning out all the upstairs drawers and cupboards, and dusting the second-best chainey a thing that's only done once a year. 'If there's work to be done I must do it, says she, 'wedding or no." "'Tis my belief she's a very good woman at bottom." "She's terrible deep, then." Mrs. Penny turned round.
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