Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 21, 2025
Her whole object now was to relieve as much as possible the despondency and misery so plainly pictured in the poor girl's face. As she put her arm round her neck and kissed her lips, Feemy's heart yearned towards her new-found friend with a kind of tenderness she had never before felt.
"Then, Feemy, in your situation, do you think a long clandestine engagement is quite the thing for you; is quite prudent?" "And how can it be clandestine, Father John, when you and Thady, and every one else almost, knows all about it?" Feemy's sharpness was too much for Father John, so he had to put it on another tack.
Ussher is a very steady nice fellow, knows what's what, and won't be less ready to come to the scratch when he knows he'll have to touch a little ready cash." "You'd better let us know what your offer is, and lave my sisther alone. It doesn't do to bring every old woman's story in, when we're talking business; so, if you plaze, we won't calculate on Feemy's marriage."
Will you be asy now? do you want to have me stark naked?" "Come away, woman, I tell you; don't I know Feemy's gone off, away from me; she'll niver, niver come back; it's Keegan and his hell-hounds you're letting in on me."
Poor Katty did not well know how to act under the trying emergencies of the case; she could not get to the door of Miss Feemy's parlour, as a strange gentleman was standing in the hall, so she ran round the house, and ascertaining that the intruder was well in the hall, and could not see her, she clambered up to her mistress's window, and exclaimed, "Hist!
McKeon was therefore no longer at a loss to account for Feemy's melancholy; and whilst she felt a cordial dislike to the man, who she thought had so basely deceived Feemy and was now going to desert her, she was heartily glad for her sake he was going, and reflected that as he was to be off to-morrow, it was useless for her now to begin to be uncivil to him. "I'm glad to congratulate you, Mr.
The facts of his last month's residence at Ballycloran seemed to be made less obscure than they had been, to his mind's eye, by the distance through which he looked at them. He appeared to comprehend more clearly both Feemy's conduct and that of her lover, and he spoke with the greatest affection of the former, and with justice to the latter. "Oh!
Thady's thick voice, red face, and sparkling eyes showed that he was intoxicated, and Biddy, if not preparing to obey him for the temptation to stay was too strong was preparing to pretend to do so, when Mary McGovery, by way of allaying Macdermot's wrath, said, "I don't believe then, Mr. Thady, that Miss Feemy's gone home, at all at all.
During the short pause which occurred in court immediately after McKeon left the table, he had once or twice looked round to learn if Feemy were coming, though the high woodwork of the dock would effectually prevent him from seeing her till she was at the table. It will be remembered that Feemy's extreme illness had never been made known to her brother, much less her lamentable situation.
His father's state the impossibility of carrying on the war any longer against the enmity of Flannelly and Keegan his own forlorn prospects the insult and blow he had just received from the overbearing, heartless lawyer but, above all, Feemy's condition, and his fears respecting her, were too much for him to bear.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking