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She thought it would be pleasant to learn even under her mother's rather peculiar method of tutelage; but, as she stood on the terrace looking across the exquisite summer scene, two of the dogs, Creena and Cushla, came into view. They rushed up to Nora with cries and barks of welcome. Down went the books on the gravel, and off ran the Irish girl, followed by the two barking dogs.
Och, thin, says Jack, giving a good-humored smile through the frown that was on his face, 'plase your lady a cushla machree it's all over with me; for I've still the same story to tell, and off goes my head, as sure as it's on my shoulders, this blessed night.
To this sternly delivered speech the Baron made no reply, but springing suddenly upon Martin, he grasped him in his powerful arms and crushed him to his broad chest till he almost broke every bone in his body! "Och! cushla, bliss yer young face! sure it's yersilf, an' no mistake! Kape still, Martin, dear. Let me look at ye, darlint!
The little girl laughed at this speech, and Matty, addressing Willie as a "dirty spalpeen," said he had better go with her to a shop first, and she'd then take him back and introduce him to Miss Tippet. "You see I can't let ye in all be yer lone, cushla; for what would the neighbours say, you know!
When he deemed his assistants perfect at their work, he went one morning to the river with all his gear, hired a boat, pushed off till he had got into two fathoms water, and then, dressing himself with the aid of the Chinamen, prepared to descend. "Are you ready?" asked his wife. "Yis, cushla, but you've forgot the kiss."
Squire O'Shanaghgan was a tall, powerfully built man, with deep-set eyes and rugged, overhanging brows; his hair was of a grizzled gray, very thick and abundant; he had a shaggy beard, too, and a long overhanging mustache. He entered the north parlor still more noisily than Nora had done. The dogs yelped with delight, and flung themselves upon him. "Down, Creena! down, Cushla!" he said.
You'll git rheumatiz, or somethin' o' that sort, if you go on longer, so I'm resolved that you shan't do it there!" "Molly, cushla!" said Machowl, in a modest tone, "I hope you won't clap a stopper on my goin' under water for some time yit plaze." Molly laughed. "Oh! It's all very well for you to poke fun at me, Mister Machowl," said Mrs Baldwin, "but you're young yet, an' my Joe's past his prime.
Kelp burning is not a fragrant occupation, and its manufacture is not specially attractive. I think Galway is a very prosperous thriving town. I went to the bathing place of Salt Hill, a long suburb of pretty cottages, mostly to be let furnished to sea bathers. I should have gone on to Cushla Bay and to the islands of Arran, but I did not. I looked round me and returned to Galway.
"An' that, Molly, my dear," said Rooney, "if properly invisted, gives you an' me a clair income only think, an income, Molly of wan hundred a year! It's true, cushla! That ye won't be able to rowl in yer carridge an' walk in silks an' satins on that income, but it'll pay the rint an' taxes, owld girl, an' help Teddy to a collidge eddication to say nothin' o' pipes an' baccy.
"Ha! ye may laugh," said the widow, with profound solemnity, "but if it's not dramin' I am, what Father Macgrath says about ghosts is true, and " "I hope you don't take me for a ghost, Mrs Lynch," said Pauline, stepping forward with a kindly smile and holding out her hand. "No, cushla! I don't," returned the widow, accepting the hand tenderly.
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