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If ye don't consint to do as we want ye to, we'll just rig up a bit of a raft, and send ye adrift upon her alone; d'ye understand me, misther alone!" "No," interposed Miss Onslow, "you shall do nothing of the kind, you cowardly wretches; where Mr Conyers goes, I go also, even if it should be overboard, with no raft to float us."
Having waited until the bush had due time to reply. "Sorra fairer," he observed; "silence gives consint." In less than two minutes he stripped, put on one of the Squire's best shirts, and spread out his own dusky fragment in its place. "It's a good thing," said Art, "to have a clear conscience; a fair exchange is no robbery."
"It's too late for that now,", replied Art, "for I axed him betther than three weeks agone." "An' did he consint?" "He did, to be sure." "Well, then, keep your word to him, of coorse; but, as soon as the christenings over, drop him like a hot potato." "Why, thin, that's hard enough, Frank, so long as I find the crathur civil."
'The devil a bit would Pat O'Leary wish to live alone in any place, bat I was just thinking, master Henry, that if you and Miss Hamilton, bless the light of her blessed black eyes, would only consint to be married, and live upon this pretty, convanient little island, what a nate, clane, comfortable serving man you might have in Patrick O'Leary.
"An' isn't he an only son, Fardorougha?" exclaimed the wife. "An' my sowl to happiness but I believe you'd see him want." "Any way," replied her husband, "I'm not for matches against the consint of parents; they're not lucky; or can't you run away wid her, an' thin refuse marryin' her except they come down wid the cash?" "Oh, father!" exclaimed Connor, "father, father, to become a villain!"
At length some of the repalers and emancipators knowing that I was a first-rate hand at fiddling came to me and tould me, that if I would give over playing Croppies Lie Down and other Orange tunes, and would play Croppies Get Up, and what not, and become a Catholic and a repaler, and an emancipator, they would make a man of me so as my Orange trade was gone, and I was half-starved, I consinted, not however till they had introduced me to Daniel O'Connell, who called me a cridit to my country, and the Irish Horpheus, and promised me a sovereign if I would consint to join the cause, as he called it.
"D'ye suppose Dorgan, th' millyonaire, wud consint to it? Whin he entered th' race iv life he was properly handicapped with a soul to offset his avarice an' his ability, so that some iv th' rest iv us wud have a kind iv a show again him. But as soon as he thinks no wan can see him he begins to get rid iv his weight an' comes rompin' home miles ahead.
"'Is that the only way? "'Ay. Does yees consint? "'I do; I must do poor Tom justice. "'Will ye marry him this same night? "'That I will. "'Tom is hid under this bridge; I'll go down and bring him up, and he'll go to the praist's with yees. Don't ye shtir or I'll ate yees.
You may go back now, for I've said what I come to say; but it's to-morrow night I'll be here waiting for ye, and I warn ye to bring me the consint that I crave, for if you don't come, be the powers! ye'll find that you've played with fire when you neglected Andy Neil." Having uttered these words, the miserable man dropped Nora's arm and vanished into the depths of the plantation.
"Say at once that you consint, and then I'll spake I'll say what I'll do." The Bodagh looked inquiringly at his wife and son. The latter nodded affirmatively. "We do consent," he added. "That shows your own sinse," said the old man. "Now what fortune will you portion your colleen wid?" "That depinds upon what you'll do for your son," returned the Bodagh.
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