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Byrne kep' turnin' it over in her mind, but she raly couldn't bring herself to mention it, nor wouldn't, on'y she was druv to it at the end, the crature, with me bein' ill so long, an' the rent comin' so heavy on her an' all.
"About my own age, sir; but by no means so stout a man; he's a dancin' masther, too, sir; and barrin' his pumps and white cotton stockin's, I don't know what she could see in him; he's a poor light crature, and walks as if he had a hump on his hip, for he always carries his fiddle undher his skirt. Ay, and what's more, sir, our daughter, Nancy, is gone off wid him." "The devil she is.
'Twas all in an instant like, Miss, she made as if she'd sit up, bein' leanin' on pillows and so she put out them purty little hands of hers, with a smile, and that was all the purty crature everyone's sorry afther her. The man was cryin' in the hall that brought the note.
Sick man, indeed! why there's not a crature livin' barrin' a natural eediot, or an apothecary, that doesn't know the man's dead; he's dead, Sir; but 'tisn't so with me, an' I can't get on without vittles, and vittles isn't to be had without money; that's logic, Mr. Justice; that's a medical fact Mr. Docthor. An' how am I to get my five hundred guineas?
Troth, Barney of late's as civil a crature as there's alive; sure what you spake of was all my own fault and not his; I'll be back in an hour or so." "Well," said his wife, "there's one thing, Art, that every one knows." "What is that, Margaret?" "Why, that a man's never safe in bad company." "But sure, what harm can they do me, when we drink nothing that can injure us?"
"Blessed Father!" exclaimed another, "did you see the brightness of her eyes while she was spakin?" "No matther what she is," said a young fellow beside them; "the devil a purtier crature ever was made; be my soul, I only wish I had a thousand pounds, I wouldn't be long without a wife at any rate."
"Heaven above sees," exclaimed his mother, "that it was a black and unlucky business to her and to all of us; but now that she knows what a revingeful villain he is, I'm sure she'll not find it hard to banish him out of her thoughts. Deah Grasthias for the escape she had from him at any rate!" "John, bring her in," said the father; "bring the unfortunate young crature in.
Why didn't you think about brother and sisther before you thried to rob the poor wake crature, as you call her; and when you found she wasn't quite wake enough, as you call it, swore to have her life, av' she wouldn't act at your bidding? That's being a brother and a guardian, is it, Masther Barry?
"D'ye know, Losh," he resumed, "whin Mister Frank is goin' to the fishery?" "He go demain, I b'lieve, and Mademoiselle Edith go too." "None o' the min goin'?" inquired the blacksmith. "Non. Monsieur Frank just go for to try if dere be any fish to be cotch by de hook; and I t'ink he go more for to give Edith one drive dan dat." "Very likely, Losh. The poor purty little crature.
'If they convict him on this, you know in case Sturk dies, and die he will they'll indict and convict him on the more serious charge, and he winked gloomily, 'the evidence is all one. 'That poor little Sally Nutter! ejaculated the major. 'She's to be pitied, the crature! ''Tis mighty slender evidence to take a man's life on, said Toole, with some disgust.
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