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"There will be no men in her house." "Can she kape thim out? She's only a wake craythur anyway." "Paulina," said her husband. She came forward and, taking his hand, kissed it, Mrs. Fitzpatrick looking on in disgust. "This woman asks can you keep the men out of your room," he said in Galician. "I will keep them out," she said simply. "Aye, but can she?" said Mrs.
He's at the end of the wharf now, purshuin' to him! Maybe I'll get him to taste a dhrop of me coffee before the bell rings. Many's the cup I gave to the old watchman before him, peace to his sowl, the kindly craythur! that never did a more ill-natured thing on his beat than sleep like a child. Hide now, darlin', and keep the tail of your eye at the corner where ye'll see the ship.
That afternoon and evening the Superintendent spent listening in the pauses of his letter writing to the praises of the missionary, and to a description, with all possible elaboration and ornament, of the saving of little Patsey's life, in which even the doctor's skill played a very subordinate part. "An' there's Patsey himself, the craythur," said Mrs.
Andy endeavoured to overcome the provocation to merriment by screeching; and as Bridget caught the sound of this tendency towards laughter between the screams, she thought it was the commencement of a fit of hysterics, and it accounted all the better for Andy's extravagant antics. "Oh, the craythur is frightened out of her life!" said Bridget. "Leave her to me," said she to the men.
At that early period in the settlement of California, a few Chinamen had found their way to the Pacific coast; but the full tide of immigration did not set in till a considerable time later, and, therefore, the miners regarded one as a curiosity. "Who have you got there, O'Reilly?" inquired one of his mining-comrades. "A yeller haythen!" answered O'Eeilly. "Look at the craythur!
"I am, dear; but it's not for a foine milithrary-looking man like yourself to be having the laugh at a poor old craythur with nothin' but the wind and weather in her bones." "The wind and weather get into my bones, I can tell you," said the watchman; "and I begin my work in the fog just when you're getting out of it." "And that's thrue, worse luck.
I also gave him a sovereign, telling him to pay his master for the horse-hire and keep the change for himself; then started him back, brimful of delight and the 'craythur, receiving his parting salute: "'Yer 'onor is a jintleman, and no mistake. "I arranged with the storekeeper to let a boy take me in his car to Clonmel. "The Green Isle!
It's mighty high the girl is, with her talk o' the gintry and the ilegant places she seen in London, and never a mintion o' his name in all her letthers, the foolish craythur! it's too good the bhoy is for the likes o' her!"
"Oh, and it's yersilf that don't shoy off from a dthrop o' the craythur whin yer thravellin' the thrail." Everybody looked at Benham. He got up and began to put on his furs; his dog-driver, squatting by the door, took the hint, and went out to see after the team.
Mike's a kind, good craythur except when he is dhrinking, but then he is the very Satan himself." "Did he give you that bruise on your face, Mrs. Kinneth?" "Yis; he came home last night mad with the whisky, and was breaking ivery thing in the house. I tried to stop him, and thin he bate me O! he never did that before! My heart is broke!"
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