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Updated: April 30, 2025
But Donahue, bein' a quite man, niver minded that, but let her go on with her do-se-does an' bought her a bicycle. All th' bicycles th' poor man had himsilf whin he was her age was th' dhray he used to dhrive f'r Comiskey; but he says, 'Tis all th' thing, he says. 'Let th' poor child go her way, he says to his wife, he says. 'Honoria, he says, 'she'll get over it.
"I have thrown off all fealty years ago, and am a free Irishman, and captain of the body of brave men who are going to dhrive the tyranny of England out of this colony for ever." "This is all news to me, sir," said my father coldly. "Is it, sor?" said our visitor mockingly. "Then I'm proud to be the bearer of the great news."
"And if you had to catch the eight o'clock train to Melbourne I believe you'd rather get up at three in the morning and run up the horses to drive in, than leave here comfortably in the car at seven." "Is it me to dhrive in it?" demanded Murty, in horror. "Begob, I'd lose me life before I'd get into one of thim quare, sawed-off things. Give me something with shafts, Mr.
But you've known him now a long time; it's now four months since we all heard for certain it was to be a match; and, to tell you the truth, my dear, people are saying that Captain Ussher doesn't mean anything serious." "I think they'll dhrive me mad with their talk! And what good will it do for you and Thady to be coming telling me what they say?"
He was good with horses; possessing the faculty of handling them that springs only from a patient, kindly, instinctive love of animals. "Nay! I dhrive mostly," Slavin was telling him, "buckboard an' team's away handier for a man av weight like meself. Eyah!" he sighed, "tho' time was whin I cud throw a leg over wid th' best av thim.
"Oh no, sir!" said the gossoon, grinning, "it's the picthure I main, sir an illigant picthure that is hung up in the chapel, and he wanted a hammer to dhrive the nails " "Oh, a picture of the crucifixion," said the little man.
It was his intintion to sind th' cav'lry in over th' roofs, while th' army carried th' front stoop, protected be fire fr'm th' heavy artillery, while th' Fr-rinch navy shelled th' back dure. But this was seen to be impossible, because th' man that owned th' wine-shop next dure, he said 'twud dhrive away custom. All th' sthreets f'r miles ar-round was blockaded without effect.
"Oh, I don't know, Sergeant" responded Redmond deprecatingly, "of course I've been around teams some down East, on the old man's farm. . . I don't know that I can claim to be a real teamster as you judge them in the Force." "H-mm!" grunted Slavin again, "ye seem tu have th' makin's anyway." He expectorated musingly. "Wan time down at Coutts 'twas a young feller was sint tu me for tu dhrive.
"Can ye see the Gineral, Kurnel?" said he, with the utmost apparent deference; "av coorse ye can, sir, only it'll be necessary for you to lave your carriage an' the horses and the nagur here in the care of these gintlemen, while I takes ye to the Gineral mesilf." "Why can I not drive on?" "Why can't ye dhrive? Is it a Kurnel ye is, an' don't know that?
If he does, there are those who will still interfere to prevent him." "And if among you all, that are so set up against him because he's not one of your own set, you dhrive him out of Ballycloran, I can tell you, I'll not remain in it!" "Then your sins and your sorrows must be on your own head!" And without saying anything further, Father John took his hat, and walked off.
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