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"An' so he comes up to where Sagasta is kind iv throwin' th' ca-ards idly on th' top iv th' bar'l, an' Sagasta pipes him out iv th' corner iv his eye, an' says to himsilf: 'Oh, I dinnaw, an' thanks hiven f'r th' law that has a sucker bor-rn ivry minyit.
"I'm me mother's pet, Granny, an' expense ain't any objek" a snort that may have meant mortal agony escaped him. "Niver moind, now. Sure we won't talk of yer father an' mother; they're punished pretty bad already. Hiven forbid they don't lose the rest o' ye fur their sins. It ain't meself that 'ud bear ony ill-will." A long groan cut short what looked like a young sermon.
"Begob, but this is a bit of a fairy tale," came the comment. "Here is none o' yer tin-cint Standard Ile prapositions, but a rale dandy uv a lamp, fit for a lady's cabin on Vandherbilt's yacht. An', for the luv o' Hiven, look at the make uv it, wid a handle where the bottom ought to be, an' all polished up like the pewther in Casey's saloon."
'Give me, he says, 'a chanst an' I'll projooce th' kind iv organ that'd be got out in hiven, he says, 'price five cints a copy, he says, 'f'r sale be all newsdealers; f'r advertisin' rates consult th' cashier, he says. So a man in Topeka that had a newspaper, he says: 'I will not be behindhand, he says, 'in histin' Kansas up fr'm its prisint low an' irrellijous position, he says.
A word of command and the pointer shot into the shore, and the next moment Macdonald Dubh, or Black Hugh, as he was sometimes called, followed by his men, was climbing up the steep bank. "What the blank, blank, do these logs mean, Murphy?" he demanded, without pause for salutation. "Tis a foine avenin' Misther Macdonald," said Murphy, blandly offering his hand, "an' Hiven bliss ye."
"Mother av Hiven," he muttered superstitiously, "it's one of the saints come down to look after the job I jumped, and waiting to strike me dead when I come back." He turned on his heel and fled up the street without once looking over his shoulder.
Mother av Hiven! how they cried, an' the ould she-god grinnin' above thim all so scornful! The dhrink was dyin' out in me fast, an' I was thinkin' harder than the thoughts wud go through my head thinkin' how to get out, an' all manner of nonsense as well.
Ye put me in mind of a wizened old man that sat all day makin' shoes in Killarney, all savin' the fringe he had on his chin." "A soldier must be dignified," I answered. "The saints bar that wurrd from hiven," said Terence, trying to pronounce it. "Come, we'll go to mass, or me mother will be visitin' me this night."
To guard against losing any of their supplies, Tim McCabe told his friends that it would be necessary to unload them themselves. "From this p'int," said he, "we must hoe our own row; under hiven we must depind on oursilves. Hardman, lind a hand there, and step lively." To the astonishment of the youths, the man took hold and wrought with right good will.
"Oi'd av know'd um in hiven or hell, or Hong-Kong. Captain Fronte's own silf, he is, as loike as two peas. An' the age av Captain Fronte befure he was kilt, phwin he was th' besht officer in all th' British ar-rmy or an-ny ar-rmy.
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