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"You're a very good boy when you don't let your wits go wool-gatherin'. As for my niece, she's no notion of encouragin' any nonsense have ye, Elleney?" Elleney's long lashes were downcast, and she nervously twisted her apron. "Sure ye haven't, dear?" said her aunt persuasively. "Tell the poor foolish fellow that ye haven't, an' then he'll be puttin' it altogether out of his head."
No one can feel more sorry nor I do for the unfort'nate mistake I'm afther makin'; I went altogether too quick, and I was very much to blame. I'm sure I ax Miss Elleney's pardon." Elleney made a little inarticulate rejoinder, and turned away. Pat looked daggers at his whilom victim, and Mrs. McNally, folding her arms, looked sternly round.
I don't understand it at all, Elleney I'm very much put about " "It's no fault of Miss Elleney's, ma'am," said Pat quickly. "She'd nothin' to say to it at all. I forgot meself altogether. When I seen that fellow makin' little of a chance that I'd give the two eyes out o' my head for " "O Pat, whisht for goodness sake!" interrupted Elleney. "Ye oughtn't to be talkin' like that."
Elleney's gay little laugh trilled out again, and she shot a glance of confiding gratitude from under her thick dark lashes in the direction of the young baker which set the honest fellow's heart dancing, though he well knew how little such innocent warmth meant. "God bless her," he murmured as he returned to his toasting fork; "if a dog done anything for her she'd look at it the same.
"I couldn't for the life o' me help it," she explained as they crowded round her. "When I had the door opened who did I see but himself" designating Brian "with his impident arm round Elleney's waist the bould little scut!" "Sure, I didn't ax him to put it there," protested Elleney, beginning to cry; "I didn't rightly know what he was doin'."
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