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And didn't didn't Basil give you anything?" Scott's tired eyes looked at her with a sudden fixity. He said nothing; but a piteous look came into Isabel's face under his steady gaze, and she dropped her own as if ashamed. "Whisht, Master Scott darlint, for the Lord's sake, don't ye go upsetting her!" warned Biddy in a sibilant whisper. "I had trouble enough last night.
The caretaker's wife had barely time to cross herself, and follow her example, when she was on her feet again, and her feet were on the lowest rungs of the ladder. "Hould tight," said the caretaker's wife. "Oh, darlint, wait till Mike comes! Come down, now! the good angels be wid you. There should have been a way at the back. Walk tinderly an' hould tight. Heaven above sind there'll be no wind!
"`Now, darlint, says I, `everybody knows yer aisy frightened about ghosts. I don't belave in one meself, an' I don't mind 'em a farden dip; but av all the ghosts in Ireland haunted ye, I'd niver give ye up. "`Will ye come an' see it this night? says she.
But the child's hand did not close over them, and the large eyes turned piteously to her mother. "It's paralyzed she is," hurriedly explained the mother. "Shall Mamma hold the beautiful roses for ye, darlint?" "Please," answered the childish treble. Ruth hesitated a second, and then rising and bending over her said, "No; I know of a better way.
"'What for? says he. "'I think I see the land, says I. "'Hurrah! says he, 'we're all right now; pull away, my boys, says he. "'Take care you're not mistaken, says I; 'maybe it's only a fog-bank, Captain darlint, says I. "'Oh no, says he; 'it's the land in airnest.
"Faith, it's wantin' to know I am how the divvle you've iver been able to move about at all, at all, colonel, with that thing there. Look at it now, an' till me what ye think of it yoursilf, me darlint. May the saints presairve us, but did any one iver say such a leg?"
Away with you, Meetuck. Look after Awatok, Grim; O'Riley will see that Aninga does not jump off." "That he will, darlint," said the Irishman, patting the woman on the back.
"Would you like to see me dance, darlint?" he asked suddenly. "Oh yis!" Thereupon Teddy Malone began to dance an Irish jig to his own whistling, although, being much agitated, he found it no easy matter to whistle in tune or time, but that was unimportant. As he danced he took care to back in a homeward direction. The child naturally followed.
Behind the lattice, on these summer evenings, stands the militant figure of that old retainer, Bridget the cook, her stout arms akimbo, ready to engage in vigorous banter should Honora deign to approach. "Whisht, 'Nora darlint, it's a young lady yell be soon, and the beaux a-comin' 'round!" she would cry, and throw back her head and laugh until the tears were in her eyes.
"But it's wus," continued Dan, "for masther an' Miss Gordon than for us, darlint there, now, don't toss yer head, mavourneen, ye know we can git spliced av we like whenever I git a noo sitiwation; but masther can't well throw up the wan he's got, an' yit it won't kape him an' his wife. Och! worse luck! Av we could only diskiver a goold mine now, or somethin' o' that sort."
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