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"Fareer gair," exclaimed the mother, speaking involuntarily aloud, and interrupting her own words with sobs of bitter anguish "Fareer gair, ma colleen dhas, but that's the heavy truth with us all. Oh, the ould man the ould man's heart will break all out, when he looks upon the place, an' everything else that our boy left behind him."
"So far so good," said Flanagan, who cared not now whether his voice was known or not; "the prize is mine, boys, an' how to bring ma colleen dhas dhun to a snug place, an' a friendly priest that I have to put the knot on us for life." "By ," thought Duffy, "I'll put a different kind of a knot on you for that, if I should swing myself for it."
"Clane through the body, avillish; jist where Captain Cramer was shot at the battle o' Bunker's Hill, where he lay as good as dead for twelve hours, and was near bein' berried a corp, an' him alive all the time, only that as they were pullin' him off o' the cart, he gev a shout, an' thin, a colleen dhas, they began to think he might be livin' still.
After a glass of punch had gone round, she waxed inveterately eloquent, indeed, so much so that the mourner, the colleen dhas dhun, herself was more than once forced to smile, and in some instances fairly to laugh at the odd grotesque spirit of her descriptions. "The rascal was quick!" said the Bodagh, "but upon my credit, Biddy, you wor a pop afore him for all that.
"I wonder," said she, "that they do not speak to me before this, for they know I'm here. Ah," she proceeded, "there's his voice! my white-haired Brian's voice! what is it, 'darling? I'm listenin'! "'Come, mother, come, he says, 'we are waitin'! "Is it for me, a lanna dhas oge? "'Yes, he says, 'for you, mother dear, for you! "Well, Brian darlin', I'll come.
"I wasn't Una dhas dhun O'Brien in my best days; an' be the vestment, you warn't Connor, that has more feelin', an' spirit, an' generosity in the nail of his little finger than ever you had in your whole carcass. I tell you if he doesn't get married to that girl he'll break his heart.
Accordingly we prepared for the worst, and put out the boot, and got a sack o' bishkits and a cask o' pork and a kag o' wather and a thrifle o' rum aboord, and any other little matthers we could think iv in the mortial hurry we wor in and, faith, there was no time to be lost, for, my darlint, the Colleen Dhas went down like a lump o' lead afore we wor many sthrokes o' the oar away from her.
Indeed, to speak the truth, and without disguise, I think that my heart is broken. Every one knows that a breaking heart is incurable." "You take it too much to yourself, a lanna dhas," said her mother; "but you must keep up your spirits, darlin' time will work wonders." "With me, mother, it never can."
"But I murdered you and that was because my brother said he would do it an' I got afraid, John, that he might do you harm, an' afraid to tell you too an' an' so you promise me you won't fight the Dead Boxer? Thank God! thank God! then your blood will not be upon me!" "Aunt, she's lost," he exclaimed; "the brain of my colleen dhas is turned!" "John, won't you save me from the Dead Boxer?
"The hussy," replied the father, "it's the supper she ought to have ready, instead of coortin' wid sich a larned vag Heavens above me! What ails my child? Susy! Susy, alanna dhas! what's over you? Oh, I see how it is," he continued "I see how it is! This accounts for her low spirits an' bad health for some time past! Susy, rouse yourself, avourneen! Sure I'm not angry wid you!
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