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Well, it's the colleen inside of them that must settle the question; for it's outside the jurisdiction of a Bodymaster and the Lord be praised for that! We have enough on us, without the women as well. You'll have to be affiliated to Lodge 341, Brother McMurdo. We have our own ways and methods, different from Chicago.
In 1838 he returned to Ireland and, dividing his property among his brothers, devoted himself to a religious life by joining the Teaching Order of the Christian Brothers. Two years thereafter he d., worn out by self-inflicted austerities. His chief novel, The Collegians, was adapted by Boucicault as The Colleen Bawn, and among his dramas is Gisippus. His novels depict southern Irish life.
Now, Barny, go an' draw home thim phaties from the pits while the day's fine; and Katty, a colleen, bring in some wather, till we get the pig killed and scalded it'll hardly have time to be good bacon for the big markets at Christmas. I don't wish," she continued, "to keep it back from them that we have a thrifle o' money.
"The blarney of your lip doesn't desave me, John McGillis," responded his cousin the cobbler, with grimness. "But whin will ye give me the word you've got, Owen?" "I'll not give it to ye till the boats go out." "Will ye tell me, is the colleen alive, thin?" "I've tould ye ye're not a widdy." "If the colleen is alive, the towken would be sint to me." "Thin ye've got it," said Owen.
Tim O'Connell, the village blacksmith, had just fallen asleep after a hard day's work, and woke in no very amiable frame of mind as Katty rapped at the door. "'Who's there at all at this time of night? said he, gruffly. "'Only meself, Katty Collins, and Andy, said Katty, rather dolorously, for she was now thoroughly alarmed. "'Alice, colleen, up and unbar the dure.
Be thim five crasses, I'm not promised to a girl livin', so I'm not, nor wouldn't, bekase I had you in my eye. Now will you tell me what I'm wantin' you? The grace o' Heaven light down an you, an' be a good, coaxin darlin' for wanst. Be this an' be that, if ever you heerd or seen sich doin's an' times as we'll have when we're marrid. Now the weeny whisper, a colleen dhas."
"An' I've said to myself, sez I, who's the handsome officer that sets off his uniform so gr-rand?" The girl leaned on her mop and gave the policeman a slant glance out of eyes of Irish brown. It was not Nora's fault that she was as pretty a colleen as ever came out of Limerick, but there was no law that made her send such a roguish come-hither look at the man in blue. He beamed.
Again the violins excited that throb of dancing feet, and John McGillis moved his arms in time to the music. "Out wid it, Owen. I'm losin' me shport." "John McGillis, are ye not own cousin to me by raisin of marryin' on as fine a colleen as iver shtepped in Ireland?" "I am, Owen, I am." "Did ye lave that same in sorrow, consatin' to fetch her out to Ameriky whin yer fortune was made?"
Accordingly we prepared for the worst, and put out the boot, and got a sack o' bishkits and a cask o' pork and a kag o' wather and a thrifle o' rum aboord, and any other little matthers we could think iv in the mortial hurry we wor in and, faith, there was no time to be lost, for, my darlint, the Colleen Dhas went down like a lump o' lead afore we wor many sthrokes o' the oar away from her.
"Ain't ye happy enough with yer Angela, an' no fat funeral like me occupyin' too much room in the Ford? Go along, me lad, an' have a good time with yer colleen! She'd like it better alone with ye, too be sure o' that!" "Of course I would!" They hadn't seen Angela come in. She stood in the doorway like a vision a morning-glory from which the freshness of the early hours never seemed to depart.
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