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"'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 own no man any spite' and, throth, that was only thruth. Well, the last bishkit was sarved out, and, by gor, the WATHER ITSELF was all gone at last, and we passed the night mighty cowld.
Willing as they were to succour a lady in disthress, they did not know of any car which could be secured in time to be of service, but one of them offered to walk and run by the side of the donkey, so as to kape him on his legs.
"You may deceive them with the dhress; and I may do a bit of a small shilloo, like a colleen in disthress, and that's all very well," said Andy, "as far as seeing and hearing goes; but when they come to grip me, sure they'll find out in a minute." "How do you know?"
"Do ye think she'd overlook the whole west half o' th' sea, Galton?" "She weel run against us eef she cooms thees way." "But she might not know we are in distress?" "Disthress, is it ye're sayin'? We're not in disthress, ye loon. This is th' happiest day o' me loife." Leonard turned to the Irishman.
In the midst of our disthress, it plased the Lord to remove my father, widout softenin' his heart towards me. But he left my Mike three hunder pounds; to be his whin he came to a right age; and he appointed my brother Pat guardian to the bhoy.
"'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.
But shure he would not disthress me by saying aught agin my mother's son. Did he not break his heart, and turn him dying an' pinniless on the wide world? An' could he have done worse had he stuck a knife into his heart?" "Ah!" she continued, with bitterness, "it was the gowld, the dhirty gowld, that kilt my poor bhoy.
The boats from the sloop-of-war on the other side of the island, and their crews armed to the teeth, are now within a few rods of the palace. 'Be the bones of St. Patrick, an' sure that is the most illegant news that iver graated the ears iv a jintleman in disthress! exclaimed Pat O'Leary, who was in an ecstacy of joy at the prospect of his speedy deliverance.
"Ladies," said the suitor, "don't disthress yourselves. There wasn't a ha'porth of harm in it me arm was in the right place. I come here by my father's wish an' with your consent, ma'am, to choose one o' your family for my wife. Me clargy wouldn't let me marry the whole of yez, so I have to be content with one, an' I'm after choosin' this one."
My poor husband and my youngest bhoy died of the cholera comin' out; an' I saw their prechious bodies cast into the salt, salt saa. Still the hope of seeing Mike consowled me for all my disthress.
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