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Moan," replied Nogher, "for settin' me right sure we'll know something ourselves whin it comes our turn, plase goodness. If the misthress isn't asleep, by goxty, I'd call in to her, that I'm dhrinkin' her health." "She's not asleep," said her mother; "an' proud she'll be, poor thing, to hear you, Nogher." "Misthress!" he said in a loud voice, "are you asleep, ma'am?"
Nogher took the liquor, his grave face charged with suppressed humor, and first looking upon his fellow-servants with a countenance so droll yet dry, that none but themselves understood, it, he then directed a very sober glance at the good woman. "Thank you, ma'am," he exclaimed; "be goxty, sure enough if our hearts wouldn't get warm now, they'd never warm.
"But what do you mean by attending families?" asked Woodward; "what description of attendance or service does she render them?" "Indeed, Mr. Harry," replied Barney, "anything but an agreeable attendance. By goxty, I believe every family she follows would be very glad to dispense with her attendance if they could." "But that is not answering my question, Casey."
"Well, ma'am," said Nogher, still in a loud voice, and scratching his head, "here's your health; an' now that the ice is bruk be goxty, an' so it is sure," said he in an undertone to the rest "Peggy, behave yourself," he continued, to one of the servant-maids, "mockin's catchin': faix, you dunna what's afore yourself yet beg pardon I'm forgettin' myself an' now that the ice is bruk, ma'am," he resumed, "you must be dacent for the futher.
"Bedad," said Nogher, "that fellow 'ill be the flower o' the Donovans, if God spares him be goxty, I'll engage he'll give the purty girls many a sore heart yet he'll play the dickens wid 'em, or I'm not here a wough! do you hear how the young rogue gives tongue at that? the sorra one o' the shaver but knows what I'm savin'."
"I hird that myself afore," observed Nogher, "that she never dhrinks hard whiskey. Well, myself never tasted punch but wanst, an' be goxty its great dhrink. Death alive, Honora More," he continued, in his most insinuating manner, "make us all a sup.
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