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"Faix, yer honer, thin, Mr. Herbert," said one man, standing at the bottom of the hill, with the half-filled wheelbarrow still hanging in his hands an Englishman would have put down the barrow while he was speaking, making some inner calculation about the waste of his muscles; but an Irishman would despise himself for such low economy "Faix, thin, yer honer, Mr.

We must take him into the house, Brady." "Into the house, yer honer! not a foot of it! why, you'd have Miss Feemy in fits; and the owld man'd be worse still, wid all thim fellows coming from Carrick and sitting on the body, discoursing whether it wor to be murdher or not." "Well, then; we'll take it to Mrs. Mehan's." "Av you do, Mr. Thady, the country 'll have it all in no time.

Mr Lynch will excuse me: we've known each other a long time." "Begorra, I don't know," said the girl, "only he's in bed and fast. Couldn't yer honer call agin about four or five o'clock? That's the time the masther's most fittest to be talking to the likes of yer honer." "These gentlemen could not wait," said the parson.

Keegan's at Carrick from the master, about the money perhaps, on Monday evening?" "Me in Carrick Monday evening!" said Pat, a little confused; "so I war shure enough, yer honer, jist to buy the mate for the supper as is to be for McGovery's marriage. You've heard in course, Captain, that Mary that's my sister is to be married to Denis McGovery to-morrow night?"

Mother is ill and the doctor says to give her the things at the end of the letter, but she says she can't aford it, and to get mutton for us and she will have the broth. We do not know anybody here but you, because Father is away and we do not know the address. Father will pay you, or if he has lost all his money, or anything, Peter will pay you when he is a man. We promise it on our honer.

But a' don't go that far, because a' think it would be an honerable dockiment, not only to my posterity, meaning my legutimate progenitors, if a' should happen to have any; but, also and moreover, to the good taste and judgment, and respect for the honer and integrity of the Bench, manifested by those who attributed to place me on it. "A' now come to Klaim No.

"Oh, it's business, yer honer; it's something about money wouldn't you step out to the rint-office?" "Don't you see I'm just going to dinner; besides, I ain't well it'll keep till to-morrow, I suppose?" "But it won't keep, Mr. Thady."

"And now, Miss Feemy, if you'd only get up and begin, dear, the others would soon folly; come, Captain Ussher would yer honer jist stand up with Miss Feemy?" "Oh, no, Mary, you're the bride you know; Captain Ussher must dance with you first." "Oh! laws, Miss, but that'd be too much honour intirely." "No, Mrs.

"Rint is it? faix then I have not not a penny; but it wasn't rint I was wanting to talk to your honer about just now; not but what the rint 'll be coming, and that right soon, Mr. Thady, and plenty too if you'll only listen to me." "Those 'd be glorious times, Joe, when the rint came that way," and Thady walked on faster, for he didn't want to prolong the conversation beyond what he could help.

"`Och, says he, `who'll sell me a place? and with that he offered a lot o' pure goold lumps. "`Guess it's too little, says the man next me. "`Ah, ye thievin' blackguard! says I. `Here, yer honer, I'll sell ye my place for half the lot. I can wait for me letter, more be token I'm not sure there is wan. For, ye see, I wos riled at the Yankee's greed.