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Updated: June 13, 2025
"Amn't I the terrible ould ruffian to go upsettin' ye that way!" he groaned remorsefully. "There now, Miss Elleney, don't mind me. I'm not meself to-day. I'm a regular ould gomeril. Sure it had to come sooner or later. It's meself knew very well I'd have to stan' by and see ye carried off some fine day by whoever was lucky enough to get ye.
"No disappointment," returned Elleney; her eyes were steady, though that red under-lip of hers would quiver; "no disappointment, a'nt, I hope. He'll be sure to pick out one of the girls, won't he?" "I b'lieve so," answered Mrs. McNally, propping herself against the counter. "He's afther tellin' me his father 'ud be the death of him if " "Sure that's all right," interrupted her niece.
Some fellows has all the luck in this world, and maybe they're no better nor others that hasn't any luck at all." But Elleney scarcely heeded the latter part of this speech; it seemed to her she could never lift up her head again. Pat knew Pat had seen! "Oh dear," she sobbed inarticulately, after a pause, "I think I'll die with the shame of it.
The impident fellow! If I was you, m'mah, I'd walk him out o' the kitchen this very minute. Ye had no call to let him in at all, Elleney. Not one of us 'ud ever dream o' such a thing, would we, Henny?" "Indeed we would not," returned Henny or Henrietta as she was indifferently called in the family. "Cockin' him up that way.
"I'm very thankful to ye, Pat," said Elleney, with a downcast face. "Sure I'm not meanin' to show disrespect," resumed he, quick to note her expression, but mistaking its cause. "It's a powerful big family your a'nt has, first and last, and why wouldn't they ait?
"Who is it that's cursin' an swearin' that way?" she began, but broke off abruptly as she realised the scene within. "Oh, a'nt, me heart's broke entirely!" cried Elleney, running to her, and hiding her face on her ample shoulder.
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