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"It's ashamed of meself I am," he said presently, his Irish accent twenty-fold increased. "I ask all your pardons for me voilence; and especially the little man's, who is a harmless crayture, and here's me hand to'm, if he'll condescind to take me by 't." So this scene of barbarity and sentimentalism passed off, leaving behind strange and incongruous impressions.
He must have been drunk!" "Ah, not at all, your Reverence," replied Julia, with almost compassionate superiority, "sure that poor boy is the gentlest crayture ever came into a house. I suppose 'tis what it was he was ashamed like when Miss McEvoy comminced to screech, and faith he never stopped nor stayed till he ran out of the house like a wild goose!"
"You're at home, dear; where else would you be?" "At home?" said I, with a start, as my eye ranged over the various articles of luxury and elegance around, so unlike the more simple and unpretending features of my uncle's house, "at home?" "Ay, just so; sure, isn't it the same thing. It's ould Don Emanuel that owns it; and won't it be your own when you're married to that lovely crayture herself?"
"'And why not? says I; 'what for wouldn't you be helping a poor crayture out of trouble, when it wouldn't cost you more nor a handful of prayers? "'Mickey, I see, says he, in a solemn tone, 'you're worse nor a haythen; but ye couldn't be other, ye never come to yer duties. "'Well, Father, says I, Looking very penitent, 'how many Masses would get him out?
The courier regarded with disfavour the unlucky Steve. "Forward march, dhirty, desartin', weak-kneed crayture that ye be! Thrott!" Beyond the pine wood the two came into an area which had been overtrampled.
He was sixty years priest of the parish, and mightily beloved by all the people, and good reason for it; a pleasanter man, and a more social crayture never lived, 'twas himself was the life of the whole country-side.
"Yes, bad luck to his hook nose. 'What are you doing there, my fine fellow? says he. 'What's that you have dragging there behind you? "'A boneen, sir, says I. 'Isn't he a fine crayture? av he wasn't so troublesome. "'Troublesome, troublesome what do you mean? "'Just so, says I. 'Isn't he parsecutiug the life out of me the whole morning, following me about everywhere I go?
The old cat objected, and struck at her, missing however, because Gwen jumped back. "Ah, ye little varmint!" cried the cook, "if they's no person handy fer yez ter pester, thin yez fall back on the owld cat, poor crayture." A few moments she watched Gwen in silence, then again she spoke. "There she goes tryin' to climb up onto the fountain basin.
Shure Oo'm desavin' the crayture. Every toime he 'ears th' door close he thinks wan o' yez is gettin' down ter walk up th' hill, an' that sort o' raises 'is sperrits." Mrs. Higgins was an incurable grumbler. She grumbled at everything and everyone.
"Till us what you did, sure, afther the poor maimed crayture was murthered by that Haytian divvle. Faith, I loathe the baste. I hate him like pizen, though I haven't sane him yit, more's the pity; but it'll be a bad job for him when I do clap my peepers on him!"
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