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You han't forgot the grog, I hope, steward?" "No fear of him: he's a good feller, is the steward, when he's asleep partiklerly. The grog's here all right." "Dinna let Dumsby git haud o't, then," cried Watt. "What! hae ye begood a'ready? Patience, man, patience. Is there ony saut?" "Lots of it, darlin', in the say. Sure this shape must have lost his tail somehow.
"I'm down but not out, darlin'. That brute of a doctor jolted me hard; I nearly took the count but I'm still in the ring. Harness me up, Lucius. I'll show that sawbones the power of mind over matter the ould croaker!" He recovered rapidly and was soon able to stagger to his feet. Then, with a return of his wonted humor, he stretched out his big right arm.
"Well, now, fwhat do ye think av that? Tex, ye danged owld sand rat, ut's proud av yersilf ye should be to be the uncle av sich a darlin'. An' tell us now, Sorr, fwhat's this I hear about yer buildin' a power plant for electric lights, or street cars, or somethin'? We thought that the lad here left the danged counthry for good, an' sarves thim danged yellow-legs that boss the Company right for not knowin' a man whin they see wan."
At last, one night when I was at the hospital sittin' beside her, she suddenly raised her sweet face, an fixin' her big eyes on me, said "`Father, I'm goin' home. Shall I tell mother that you're comin'? "`What d'ye mean, my darlin'? says I, while an awful thump came to my heart, for I saw a great change come over her.
She was in his lap, now, her chubby arms clasped around his neck and her soft cheek laid close beside his rough and ruddy one. "And when ye get back, Patsy darlin'," he whispered, tenderly stroking her hair, "the joy of the meeting will make up for all that we've suffered. It's the way of life, mavourneen.
Frona nodded her head vigorously. "Thin it's yer ownself afther all? The little motherless darlin', with the goold hair I combed the knots out iv many's the time? The little witch that run barefoot an' barelegged over all the place?" "Yes, yes," she corroborated, gleefully.
Short as the time is, God may interpose between me and misery between me and despair. But if I am married to this man, Alice, my faith in virtue, in a good conscience, in truth, purity, and honor, my faith in Providence itself will be shaken; and then I will despair and die." "Oh, what do you mean, my darlin' Miss Gourlay?" exclaimed her weeping maid.
And 'How's that? asks Miss Laura, catching the girl to her heart and kissin' her ill-cropped head, 'do you think we will not stand by you in your search and help you with money and time and every service, you who have been so faithful to our darlin'? And then the pair o' them huggin' each other, like they'd loved each other sence the day they was born."
Ev'ry night 'nd mornin' we prayed God to save our darlin'; but one evenin' when I come up from the wood-lot, the Old Man wuz restless 'nd his face wuz hot 'nd he talked in his sleep. Maybe you've been through it yourself, maybe you've tended a child that's down with the fever; if so, maybe you know what we went through, Lizzie 'nd me.
I I had to have it and we got it, darlin', we we got it a cool hundred!" He lay back on the pillow, suddenly limp, the bill fluttering to the coverlet, and she slid her arm beneath his head. "You could have knocked me down, too, darlin'. Easy, just like that he forked over. 'What's a Aid Society for? he kept sayin'. 'What's a Aid Society for?" "Vi, I " "Don't cry, darlin', don't cry.
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