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Well, my dear, up she came, stepping like a three-year-old, and blushing like the brake o' day: for though her apron was thrown over her head as she came forrid, till you could barely see the tip ov her chin, more be token there was a lovely dimple in it, as I've been tould, yet she let it shlip abit to one side, by chance like, jist as she got fornenst the fire, and if she wouldn't have given his Riv'rence a shot if he hadn't been a priest, it's no matther.
"Sorra betther bottle ov wine's betuxt this and Salamanca, nor there's fornenst you on the table; it's raal Lachrymachrystal, every spudh ov it." "It's mortial could," says Father Tom. "Well, man alive," says the Pope, "sure, and here's the best ov good claret in the cut decanther."
"Mebbe he wouldn't, but he's not here now!..." "You wouldn't do behind his back what you'd be afraid to do fornenst his face, would you?" "You've no right to talk to me that way. I'm your mother!..." "You knew rightly he wouldn't have liked it," John continued, inexorably. And then Mrs. MacDermott yielded. "You're your da over again," she complained.
Free? said he, as he gathered them up and sat down beside the fire. "'I'm convanient, said he, and began dealing out as if there was a partner fornenst him. "When my father used to get this far in the story, he became very confused.
One or two more useless attacks will lead him to a more conciliatory frame of mind, unless he appeals to the law, which is what I thought he would do; for I felt sure a sheriff would be in the van of attack. Just now you are opposed only to the Earl of Westport; but, when the sheriff comes on, you're fornenst the might of England."
When Lord Castlederry came bouncing into the town, ordering people to do this or to do that, just because the Queen's grandson was coming to the place, your da stood up fornenst him and said, as bold as brass, 'The people of this town are not Englishmen, my lord, to be ordered about like dogs!
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