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The latter, being of somewhat slight figure and a good-looking youth, made a bouncing Irish colleen. These two made a point of studying from nature, not only in their dancing, but in their acting and singing, so that their performances were always true to life, without an atom of exaggeration.
Harrigan sighed, looking up to the stainless blue of the sky: "Aye, that's the way of the Scotch. When they're happy in love, they go off by themselves an' brood like a dog that's thinking of a fight. But were I he, I'd never be leavin' your side, colleen."
'Twas the father of the fair little lady You drove to her grave so green. And who let him pass through the court-yard, By loosening the bar and chain? Oh, who but the brother of your mistress Who lies in the cold and the rain! Then who drew the bolts at the portal And into my house bade him go? She, the mother of the poor little colleen Who lies in her youth so low.
Dirty Dublin she was fond of calling the capital of Ireland. "What do you want to go to Dirty Dublin for?" she said. "You'll spend a lot of money, and God knows we have little enough at the present moment." "Oh, no, I won't, Ellen," he replied. "I'll be as careful as careful can be; the colleen can witness to that.
On this occasion the mother, who watched every motion and anticipated every wish of the beloved one, saw that she turned her eye several times upon her as if some peculiar anxiety distressed her. "Una, jewel," she at length inquired, "is there anything you want, colleen maehree; or anything I can do for you?" "Come near me, mother," she replied, "come near me."
His head tilted back in the way she had come to know, and she waited for the soft dialect: "I'd be singin' songs av love an' war-r-r, an' braggin' me hear-rt out, an' talkin' av the sea-green av your eyes, colleen. Look at him now!" For the great form of McTee left the circle of the trees and approached them. "He's got his head down between his shoulders like a whipped cur.
Oh, believe me, I speak of what I know! I have been away from Ireland for a long time, and I'm never going back, but I'll bring Ireland to me. Come here, colleen, come to Virginia. Write to me, on the day you get this letter, that you're coming soon. Let it be soon, because I feel the cords binding me to my beloved fields growing thinner.
"Cut right off of a piece of the same cloth as your father. Now some way we must get together enough money to get ye a good-sized rug for under your worktable, and then ye've got to have two bits of small ones, one for your hearthstone and one for your aisel; and then ye're ready, colleen, to show what ye can do.
But something made him dumb and tongue-tied. "Kenny!" exclaimed Joan. "The lantern!" "I know, colleen," said Kenny, "but one lantern more or less in an epoch doesn't matter." "Mr. Abbott will be waiting. Suppose he came to look for me." "God forbid! I can't I won't let you go." "You must!" "Joan, you are sure, sure you love me?" "I know," said Joan steadily, "that I love you.
But where's he gone into the other room? Well, if he was here 'twould be the same. He's got a vessel that can sail. Let him sail her to-morrow and win, if it's in her or in him. But a thousand dollars and outside my house and vessel, Lord knows, it's all the money I've got in the world beyond my house and vessel a thousand dollars the Colleen beats the Withrow.
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