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Sure, I'm disgracin' my relations by the life I'm ladin'. I 'll go to my grave widout ever batin' a man or bein' bate myself; that's the vexation. Divil the row ever I was able to kick up in my life; so that I'm fairly blue-mowlded for want of a batin'. But if you have patience " "Patience!" said Mr.
"Scorn you!" cried Lucy, angrily. "He who has behaved so wickedly!" Mrs. Berry attempted to rise. "I may as well go at once," she whimpered. "If I see him I shall only be disgracin' of myself. I feel it all on my side already. Did ye mark him, my dear? I know I was vexin' to him at times, I was. Those big men are so touchy about their dignity nat'ral. Hark at me! I'm goin' all soft in a minute.
It's dried up the very blood in yer veins, that's what it has! Yer frightened to show one real, human, kindly impulse. Ye don't know what happiness an' freedom mean. An' if that is what money does, I don't want it. Give me what I've been used to POVERTY. At least I can laugh sometimes from me heart, an' get some pleasure out o' life without disgracin' people!"
Now, farewell, and think of the girl you have lost by disgracin' your religion and your name." Bryan paused for a moment, as if irresolute how to act, and exchanged glances with his high-minded little sister. "Tell Kathleen, from me," said the latter, "that if she had a little more feeling, and a little less pride or religion, I don't know which, she'd be more of a woman and less of a saint.
I canna but think it an ungracious thing 'at a young wuman like me, the son's wife, suld put the man's ain mother, his father's wife, oot o' the place whaur his father set her. I'm layin doon no prenciple; I'm sayin only hoo it affecs me. I want to come hame as her dochter, no as mistress o' the hoose in her stead. And ye see, Francie, that'll gie ye anither haud o' her, agen disgracin o' hersel!
I 'm a quiet 'oman, says I, 'and I don't thank you, says I, whin the blood was stopped, 'no, I don't thank you for disgracin' an old neighbor like me.
He ended up by saying, though he was a Republican, as his father is, he intended to vote Democratic he's domiciled here as a protest against the impure and corrupt Boss-system which was disgracin' American political life. 'Twas baby talk. But it's like this.
My great-great-great-gran'father en yo' great-great-great-great-gran'father was Ole Cap'n John Smith, de highest blood dat Ole Virginny ever turned out, en his great-great-gran'mother, or somers along back dah, was Pocahontas de Injun queen, en her husbun' was a nigger king outen Africa en yit here you is, a slinkin' outen a duel en disgracin' our whole line like a ornery lowdown hound!
Missed the sound o' wimmin's petticoats, 'e did." He turned fiercely on his son. "'Ere, don't you stand starin' there! You get 'ome, and fix up for the night. Now then, wot are you dawdlin' for, pig-'ead?" The boy slunk away. When he had disappeared, his father again took up the challenge of Mahony's silent disapproval. "I can't 'ardly bear the sight of 'im, doc. disgracin' me as 'e 'as done.
To try to help some one you're fond of, who is going to the bad, is the most nerve-racking and exhausting work which any man can possibly do." "Hm! you always was a dum queer parson, more like the rest of us, somehow. And you don't hold that you're disgracin' your profession ridin' with me, and shovelin' gravel?" "I don't seem to be worrying much about it, do I?"
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