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Coomber's lap before the fire, the boys mutely looking at her as she lay, she suddenly put up her little hands, and said in a feeble whisper, "Dear faver Dod, tate tare o' daddy and mammy, and Tiny;" and then she seemed to drop off into a doze. The boys were startled, and Mrs.
'Twas he turned us on the wide world, whin your poor mother was risin' out of her faver. 'Twas he squenched the hearth, whin she wasn't able to lave the house, till I carried her in my arms into Paddy Cassidy's the tears fallin' from my eyes upon her face, that I loved next to God. Didn't he give our farm to his bastard son, a purple Orangeman?
He would have been happily disputing the opportune bone with Foxy, had not that faithful animal's devotion led him to hand it over at once. "Faver, make him take it away from me!" he demanded. "Faver, I'm all chained up! I'm a little dog!"
"How long have you been in this country?" he inquired. "Nearly three years." "You have been ill of the fever which is so prevalent; how did you come to be left to the chance of perishing upon the highway?" "Why, sir, the people were afeard to let me into their houses in consequence of the faver.
Punishment was evidently waived, or so far in the future as not to worry anybody. The child's clear little assured voiced came to her, sitting in the shadows. "But if God takes care of me, Faver, I don't see why I need a nurse bovvering," he was expostulating. Joy didn't hear just how his family met this objection.
No, sir; but if you will send Father James up to my poor wife and daughter that's so ill with this faver that's all I want." "To be sure he'll go, or rather I'll go myself, for he won't be home till after station. Did this middleman landlord of yours know that there was fever in your family when he; sent in the bailiffs?"
"Remember, Ben," she continued, speaking in a timorous voice, and her color coming and going, "remember that Greased Lightning is a very wicious sort of 'orse, and this is only a little child. Has you ever been on a 'orse's back afore, little love?" "Sometimes," replied Diana. "And my faver said when I got older he would give me a horse of my own to wide.
Nevertheless, she went back and took hold of the child's hand. "You may kiss the gentleman ... good-bye," she said in a constrained voice. "The pretty man was goin' to be my faver," said the child, pleadingly. "I want a daddy awful bad." "Yes, yes, I know," Tess returned tremulously. "Now hurry, dear, and then run home."
Mave had, on entering, deposited the little matters she had brought for their comfort, and Mary now came over, and placing her hand on her shoulder, said: "Sarah is right, dear Mave; for God's sake do not stay here. Oh, think only think if you tuck this faver, an' that anything happened you."
Pathrick, and tin days afther I saw my darlin' Dinnis buried in the salt say. He fell sick wid a faver, and all me prayers for his life could not save him; an' here I am, a lone widdy, in a shtrange land, without a penny in me pocket, nor a place to lay me head." Here the poor woman's grief choked her utterance, and, covering her face with her hands, she wept aloud.
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