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"Well," continued the narrator, "there' they sat, with cowld and fear in their pale faces, shiverin' over the remains of the fire, for it was now nearly out, and thinking, as the deadly blast would drive through the creaking ould door and the half-stuffed windies, of what their father would do under such a terrible night.
"Well, I suppose I'd better be meek, Murty, if the orders are so strict though it's warm enough out here still." "The cowld creeps up from thim flats," Murty said, judicially. "An' whin y' are takin' things aisy well, y' are apt to take a cowld aisy as well." "I'm certainly taking things far too easy for my taste," Mr. Linton said, smiling ruefully.
Father, on my knees I go to you;" and she dropped down as she spoke; "here on my knees I go to you, an' before you spake, mark, that through shame an' pain, an' sufferin', an' death, I'll stay by you, an' with you. But, I now kneel to you what I hardly ever did to God an for his sake, for God's sake, I ask you; oh say, say that you did not kill the man in cowld blood; that's all!
"But lots o' goold," suggested Larry, with a wink; "give us a drop o' yer grog, lads, it's dry work meetin' so many friends all at wanst." "Nothin' but water here!" said Muggins. "What! wos ye singin' like that on cowld wather?" "We wos!" returned Muggins.
I've no doubt that you're perfectly right. I will advertise." He shook hands with the ladies gratefully with the one, indifferently with the other and bowed himself out, hurrying to the waiting Patrick, who had fulfilled his own prophecy in so far that he was by this time "cowld" in every limb, although his temper was exceedingly warm.
"'This is pleasant, says my father, as soon as they left him there alone by himself, with no human creature to speak to, nor a whiskey-shop within ten miles of him; 'cowld comfort, says he, 'on a winter's day; and faix, but I have a mind to give ye the slip. "Well, he put his gun down on the bridge, and he lit his pipe, and he sat down under an ould tree and began to ruminate upon his affairs.
'You're as dhrunk as can be consaved, says Jim. 'Go back, in God's name, pacibly to your grave, says Nell. 'By my sowl, it's to my grave you'll sind me, sure enough, says he, 'you hard-hearted bain', for I'm jist aff wid the cowld, says he.
"Thady's not here now to be brow-beating and teasing him; it's we'll be comfortable now the cowld long nights for the Captain 'll be bringing the whiskey and the groceries with him, won't he, darling? and Thady the blackguard's out along wid Keegan, and they can't get in through the door, for it's always locked;" and then turning to Mary, he said, "why don't you put the locks back, you d d jade? do you want them to be catching me the first moment I'm seeing my own darling girl here?"
When all was over, the sergeant reported him to me, for bragging 'that he could have buried them six feet deep himself in two hours, and have covered them up so nately after, that the devil couldn't stick a tooth in them; but he had kept the secret to be revenged of the corporal, who had 'listed him one day, and of the drummer who had 'flogged him. 'Please your honour, said he, when called before me, 'I was sartain you wished to find work for us this cowld weather, and it wouldn't become me to say what your honour knew as well as myself that a rousing fire would soften any frost; and sure, only I know you compassionated the poor starving wolves, I'd have thrown a few buckets of water through the grave-stones, and clinched 'em as tight as the bars of Newgate."
The yawl being unable to get out of the Gut, the men in it were obliged to "lie on their oars" all night, and those on the top of the building, where there was scarcely shelter for a fly, felt both the "look-out" and the look-in so "cowld" that they worked all night as the only means of keeping themselves awake and comparatively warm.
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