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Updated: June 6, 2025
'You're as dhrunk as can be consaved, says Jim. 'Go back, in God's name, pacibly to your grave, says Nell. 'By my sowl, it's to my grave you'll sind me, sure enough, says he, 'you hard-hearted bain', for I'm jist aff wid the cowld, says he.
"'Do you not know me, Peg? sez I, though me blood was hot in me wid being called a civilian." "An' him a decent married man!" wailed Dinah Shadd. "'I do not, sez Peg, 'but dhrunk or sober I'll tear the hide off your back wid a shovel whin I've stopped singin'. "'Say you so, Peg Barney? sez I. 'Tis clear as mud you've forgotten me.
To his surprise came Slavin's soft brogue echoing the last lines of the old Shakespearian sonnet, with a sort of dreamy, gentle bitterness: "As binifits forghot forghot! as binifits forghot! . . . . Luk tu that now! eyah! 'tis th' trute, lad! . . . . for here unless I am mistuk, comes me bould Yorkey an' dhrunk as 'a fiddler's again. Tchkk! an' me on'y just afther warnin' um. . . ."
I'm not so bad garçon, you know; kind of fond of drink now and then I 'pologize, 'pologize, m'sieu, for you see me a leetle bit dhrunk. Now understand. I'm by nature a most loving kind of man, and I'm fond of leetle children. Yes, sir, bigosh, excusez a leetle bit of swear but that is my nature, that is me, and I would like, sir, some leetle babee of my own.
As for guardian, I'm thinking it's long since she was of age, and, av' her father didn't think she wanted one, when he made his will, you needn't bother yourself about it, now she's no one to plaze only herself. And as for brother, Masther Barry, why didn't you think of that before you struck her, like a brute, as you are before you got dhrunk, like a baste, and then threatened to murdher her?
The voice of the Irishman aroused him. "Fwhat the hell! Is ut dhrunk ye are?" Then, as he caught a good look at the surveyor's face "For the love av Gawd, fwhat's wrong wid ye, lad?" The rancher also was looking at him curiously. Abe gained control of himself instantly with an apologetic laugh. "Excuse me, Pat. I was thinking about the work and didn't see you.
"Bhoys," said the culprit, still shaking gently, "whin I've done my tale you may cry if you like, an' little Orth'ris here can thrample my inside out. Ha' done an' listen. My performinces have been stupenjus: my luck has been the blessed luck av the British Army an' there's no betther than that. I went out dhrunk an' dhrinkin' in the palanquin, and I have come back a pink god.
The Divil's Mass is ten times worse, an' Peg Barney was singin' ut, whackin' the tent-peg on the head wid his boot for each man that he cursed. A powerful big voice had Peg Barney, an' a hard swearer he was whin sober. I stood forninst him, an' 'twas not me oi alone that cud tell Peg was dhrunk as a coot.
And why? because Barry Lynch got dhrunk, and frightened you. Av' I'd seen the ruffian striking you, I think I'd 've been near putting it beyond him to strike another woman iver again." "Glory be to God that you wasn't near him that night," said Anty, crossing herself. "It was bad enough, but av' the two of you should ever be set fighting along of me, it would kill me outright."
He slep' in th' coal-sheds afther that until th' poor ol' man cud square it with th' loot. But, whin he come out, ye cud see how his face had hardened an' his ways changed. He was as silent as an animal, with a sideways manner that watched ivrything. Right here in this place I seen him stand f'r a quarther iv an' hour, not seemin' to hear a dhrunk man abusin' him, an' thin lep out like a snake.
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