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Both were affected in precisely a similar manner; both were jolly. "Begorrah, but yees are a fine owld gintleman, if yer face does look like a paint-jug, and ye isn't able to lay claim to one-half the beauty meself possesses. That ye be," said Teddy, a few moments after they had seated themselves, and before either had been affected by the poisonous liquid.
"I 'm convanient if the owld gintleman is," had been Mr. O'Rourke's remark, when the proposition was submitted to him. Not that Mr. O'Rourke had the faintest idea of gardening. He did n't know a tulip from a tomato. He was one of those sanguine people who never hesitate to undertake anything, and are never abashed by their herculean inability. Mr.
"Darby, I fear that Mr. Lucre has not improved your perceptions of spiritual things." "Why, as to that, Mr. M'Slime, if you knew Mr. Lucre's piety as well as I do however, as you say yourself, sir, it's known, or rather it's unknown, the piety of that gintleman."
"Maybe your honour id wish to have a word with Father Murphy?" "Hould your tongue, you misherable bliggard," says the squire; "it's not iv my sowl I'm thinkin' an' I wondther you'd have the impitence to talk to a gintleman consarnin' his sowl; and when I want THAT fixed," says he, slappin' his thigh, "I'll go to them that knows what belongs to the likes," says he.
As he went out upon the street, a crowd of persons were standing opposite the inn door, where an extensive yarn market, in these good old times, was always held; and we need scarcely say that his gentlemanly and noble figure, and the striking elegance of his manner, at once attracted their attention. "Well," said one of them, "there goes a real gintleman, begad, at any rate."
The good-natured Irishwoman pushed King in a small cupboard, and stood with her back against the door. "What'll ye have, Miss Marjorie?" she said, as Midget rushed in half a minute later. "Where's King?" asked Marjorie, breathless and panting. "Masther King, is it? I expict he's sthudyin' his schoolbooks like the little gintleman he is.
* According to the superstitious belief of the Irish, a priest, when banishing a spirit, puts it into a thumb- bottle, which he either buries deep in the earth, or in some lake. "Just at this minute, the whole company sees a gintleman galloping for the bare life of him, up to the hall-door, and he dressed like an officer. In three jiffeys he was down off his horse, and in among the company.
"'Ah! says the friar, 'see what it is to have a good landlord and a Christian gintleman to dale with. This is the feeling which should always bind a landlord and his tenants together.
The neighbours had it, that the squire's ould grandfather, as good a gintleman, God be with him, as I heer'd as ever stood in shoe leather, used to keep walkin' about in the middle iv the night, ever sinst he bursted a blood vessel pullin' out a cork out iv a bottle, as you or I might be doin', and will too, plase God; but that dosen't signify.
The latter said "Yes," and the Judge went on, "I'd like to know if the gintleman has ever personally seen the Catholic Protectoree?" "No, I haven't," said his astonished opponent. "Then, phwat do you mane by talking about its being unconstitootional? It's no more unconstitootional than you are!"
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