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"Why, thin, indeed, and I'm behowlden to your honor; and it's the hoighth o' kindness, so it is, you offer; and it's nothin' else but a gintleman you are, every inch o' you; but I hope it's not so bad wid us yet, as to do the likes o' that."
Mary's, a commendation which every one conversant with that section of Maryland will understand to imply what the Irish schoolmaster, in one of Carleton's tales, calls "the hoighth of good living."
They kin pass things off wid th' high hand an' kape their nerve betther'n th' roughnecks ivry toime. "Think av that terribul murdherer, Deeming an' thim tu docthors Pritchard an' Palmer, colludge men, all av thim. An' not on'y men, but wimmin, tu. 'Member Mrs. Maybrick? All movin' in th' hoighth av society!" He was silent a moment, then his face fell.
"Why, thin, indeed, in the regard o' that same we are in the hoighth o' distress, for exceptin' the scalpeens, sorra taste passed our lips for these four days." "O, you poor devils!" said the commander, in a tone of sincere commiseration, "I'll order you some provisions on board before you start." "Long life to your honor! and I'd like to drink the health of so noble a gintleman."
If it was mortal foes I'd stick by ye; but that's more than any mortal man can dare to face. Oh! this is a terrible country, where the people cannot lie quiet in graves, but must needs go skipping about without any flesh on their bones." "The hoighth of ondacency!" cried out Larry, in a voice which showed very little, if any, alarm.
"Only he likes to have a nobleman's name in his mouth," said Geraghty. "I think it's the hoighth of bad manners talking about anybody's friends unless you happen to know them yourself." "I think it is," said Roden, looking up from his desk. "But I'll tell you what shows worse manners; that is, a desire to annoy anybody.
Well, he left the loom at last, and wint over to the stirabout, and what would you think but whin he looked at it, it was as black as a crow; for, you see, it was in the hoighth o' summer, and the flies lit upon it to that degree that the stirabout was fairly covered with them.
About Printing-house Square, mayhap you may light on an honest man, a squeamish man, a proper moral man, a man that shall talk you Latin by the half-column if you will but hear him. And what a style it is, that great man's! What hoighth of foine language entoirely! How he can discoorse you in English for all the world as if it was Latin!
"It was very fortunate, father, an' I'm glad of it" "It was, indeed, the hoighth o' luck. Now, Connor, you think one thing, an' that is, that; we're partin' forever, an' that we'll never see one another till we meet in the next world. Isn't that what you think? eh, Connor?" "It's hard to tell what may happen, father. We may see one another even in this; stranger things have been brought about."
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