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Says I to the colleen: 'What shall I do provided any more come, for all the meal is gone, and there will be no more before the boys come home at night from the ballybetagh. Says the colleen: 'If any more come, can't ye give them something else? Says I: 'It has always been my practice to give in meal, and loth should I be to alter it; for if once I begin to give away other things, I may give away all I have. Says the colleen: 'Let's hope no one else will come: there have been thirteen of them already. Scarcely had she said these words, when a monstrous woman, half-naked, and with a long staff in her hand, on the top of which was a cross, made her appearance; and placing herself right before the door, cried out so that you might have heard her for a mile, 'Give me an alms for the glory of God! 'Good woman, says I to her, 'you will be kind enough to excuse me: all the preparation I had made for alms has been given away, for I have relieved thirteen unfortunates this blessed morning so may the Virgin help ye, good woman! 'Give me an alms, said the Beanvore, with a louder voice than before, 'or it will be worse for you. 'You must excuse me, good mistress, says I, 'but I have no more meal in the house.
He sailed about five hundred miles out of his way away to the eastward and s'uth'ard. There might be cruisers and cutters galore after him, he said they might put out from Halifax, or telegraph ahead you couldn't tell what they might do, he said, and so he sailed the Colleen out to sea. But we came across the Bay one dark night without side-lights, and reached Boston all right.
"Nature must have its way; an' surely, within reason, it's not sinful, seein' that God himself has given us the feelin's of sorrow, whin thim that we love is lavin' us lavin' us never, never to see them agin. It's only nature, afther all; and now ma colleen dhas"
Rorke no longer stood between him and his own flesh and blood, or whether the girl's obstinacy had aroused in him a corresponding desire to carry his point, or whether, as some of the neighbours ill-naturedly said, he thought if the fine little colleen was to go to sarvice at all, she might as well come to him for no wages as to be airnin' from somebody else, remains a mystery; but it is certain that in spite of the unpleasant condition imposed by Roseen, Peter felt a curious glow of pride and pleasure when he assisted Roseen to alight at the door of Monavoe.
Here's a colleen shlipped through the fingers of those bow-legged signboards and fair done wid heroism an' strategy, an' Lord knows what all, an' off her feet wid tire! Do ye take her an' feed her. Put her to bed on th' blankets an' do for her like yerself knows how, darlint! 'Tis an angel unaware, I'm thinkin' an' her on Deer River!"
And Beauty was hers, of the spirit as well as of the flesh. And Love.... "Why, Louise! There are tears on your lashes, my colleen!" "But I am singing, uncle." And she smiled through her tears. "Sweetheart?" "Yes, Uncle Walter?" "What is it? Tell me." "I wish I could. I don't know. I think I'm getting to be grown up just like a woman. It it makes me think of lots of things. Let's ride."
Jimmy Spence, paying no attention to the accusations of the girl, gave the war-whoop which had formerly been so effective in the second act of "Pocahontas" in which Jimmy had enacted the noble savage and then he danced a jig that had done service in "Colleen Bawn."
In his shirt-sleeves, the neck open at the throat, he looked the embodiment of masculine vigor. Diane could not help mentioning it to her cousin. "Isn't he a splendid human animal?" Sheba nodded. "He's wonderful." "If I were a little Irish colleen and he had done me the honor to care for me, I'd have fallen fathoms deep in love with him." The Irish colleen's eyes grew reflective.
"Oh, I'll manage somehow," said Squire O'Shanaghgan; "and we have three months all but a week to turn round in. We'll manage by hook or by crook. Don't you fret your pretty little head. I wouldn't have a frown on the brow of my colleen for fifty O'Shanaghgans, and that's plain enough. I couldn't say more, could I?" "No, father dear," answered Nora a little sadly.
People especially those who live in the West of England remember the great fire at the Lewminster Theatre; how, in the second Act of the Colleen Bawn, a tongue of light shot from the wings over the actors' heads; how, even while the actors turned and ran, a sheet of fire swept out on the auditorium with a roaring wind, and the house was full of shrieks and blind death; how men and women were turned to a white ash as they rose from their seats, so fiercely the flames outstripped the smoke.
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