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"Arrah thin, Miss Dinah darlint, don't ye be scared at all! She'll speak to ye in a minute, sure. It's only that she's tired to-night. She'll be more herself like in the morning." Dinah hung over the still figure. Biddy's whispering was as the buzzing of a fly. She heard it with the outer sense alone.
"And where did ye drift from, darlint?" Mrs. Bunker bridled feebly at the epithet. "I didn't drift. I was going to the Fort." "The Fort, is it?" "Yes. I want to see the general." "Wadn't the liftenant do ye? Or shure there's the adjutant; he's a foine man." "Silence, Flanigan," said the young officer sharply. Then turning to Mrs.
"'Thrue for you, Captain darlint, says I I called him darlint, and made free with him, you see, bekase disthress makes us all equal, 'thrue for you, Captain jewel, God betune uz and harm, I owe no man any spite, and throth that was only thruth.
As for my wife that Angel I've not ventured to depigt HER. Fansy her a sittn in the Bar, smiling like a sunflower and, ho, dear Punch! happy in nussing a deer little darlint totsywotsy of a Jeames, with my air to a curl, and my i's to a T! * This refers to an illustrated edition of the work.
"Faith an' sure," retorted Mike, "that's bekase ye don't want 'em, avic. Ye've got so many pigs, me darlint, amongst ye, bedad, ov yer own, sure, an' not fur off, nayther, I'm a-thinkin'!" Before `Ugly' could make any reply to this sharp home-thrust, a bugle rang out loudly throughout the ship fore and aft, putting a stop to the interesting conversation.
"Shure, there's lots of things ye don't know, me darlint," interjected Gerald. "And he is the man who was with Monkey on the river," added Rand. "And the man that was in the boat the other day," put in Dick. "I hope they catch him!" said Pepper vindictively. "Go for him, Pepper," encouraged Gerald. "And that is what Monkey stole the fish for," continued Pepper. "Of course it was," replied Jack.
Give me little Norah now, the darlint! and be after eating your supper." She had ladled out the last spoonful of mush, and the pot was being scraped inside earnestly by Nine, Eight, Seven, and Six. Peter took the bowl, and looked at his children.
Well, wan evenin' I wint to see her, an' says I, `Mrs Morgan, did ye iver hear the bit song called the Widdy Machree? `Sure I niver did, says she. `Would ye like to hear it, darlint? says I. So she says she would, an' I gave it to her right off; an' when I'd done, says I, `Now, Widdy Morgan, ochone! will ye take me? But she shook her head, and looked melancholy. `Ye ain't a-goin' to take spasms? said I, for I got frightened at her looks. `No, says she; `but there's a sacret about me; an' I like ye too well, Phil, to decaive ye; if ye only know'd the sacret, ye wouldn't have me at any price.
"Put yer head on me ould withered breast," said the apparition, "an' ye'll know a mither's heart niver changes. I've been a-lookin' for ye and expectin' ye these long, weary years, They said ye wouldn't come back that I'd niver find ye ag'in; but I knowed I wud, and here ye are in me arms, me darlint. Don't draw away from yer ould mither. Don't ye be afeard or 'shamed loike.
"It's you she wants, darlint, it's you they says can see her it's a little girl she has " and Felicia went down the stairway with her gift under her arms, the gift she had found that night when they ransacked the treasures of the storeroom and that she had hidden because she knew directly she peeped at it, what she would do with it.
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