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"This is to give you notice, that nothing can save yez. Look back upon your work an' see what yez desarve from the counthry. You began with a farm of sixty acres, and you took farm afther farm over the heads of the poor an' them that wor strugglin', until you now have six hundre' acres in your clutches.
"I know that, Peggy, an' be the same token, I want no fortune at all wid you but yourself, darlin'. In the mane time, to show you that I could get a fortune Dhera Lorha Heena, I could have a wife wid a hundre an' twenty guineas!" Peggy received this intelligence much in the same manner as Larry and Sheelah had received it. Her mirth was absolutely boisterous for at least ten minutes.
Oh, if we had now the five hundre good pounds that we spent upon our farm spent, as it turned out, not for ourselves, but to enable that ould villain of a landlord to set it to Darby Skinadre; for I b'lieve it's he that's to get it, with strong inthrest goin' into his pocket for all our improvements; if we had now," he continued, his passion rising, "if we had that five hundre pounds now, or one hundre, or one pound, great God! ay, or one shillin' now, wouldn't it save some of you from starving"
The boisterous doctor had stuck to the Dodds in all their distresses; and if they were ever short of money, it certainly was not his fault: for almost his first word, when he found them in a lodging, was, "Now, ye'll be wanting a Chick. Gimme pen and ink, and I'll just draw ye one; for a hundre." This being declined politely by Mrs. Dodd, he expostulated.
She has the full of a rabbit-skin o' guineas." "A made boy! Faith, they say I'm that as it is, you know. But would you wish me to put my comedher on Gracey Dalton? Spake out." "To be sure I would." "Ay," observed the mother, "or what 'ud you think of Miss Pattherson? That 'ud be the girl. She has a fine farm, an' five hundre pounds. She's a Protestant, but Phelim could make a Christian of her."
"An' the ould grandfather? musha, but I was glad to see him look so well on Sunday last!" "Troth he's as stout as e'er a one of us." "The Lord continue it to him! I suppose you hard o' this robbery that was done at honest Jemmy Burke's?" "I did, indeed, an' I was sorry to hear it." "A hundre' an' fifty pounds is a terrible loss to anybody in such times."
"It was two um it was two urn urn it was um um it was two hundre' itself," observed Cavanagh, after he had finished a portion of the operation, and given himself an opportunity of speaking "it war two hundre' itself, I'm tould, an' that's too much, by a hundre' and ninety-nine pounds nineteen shillings an' eleven pence three fardens, to be robbed of."
Lord Ipsden ran hastily over the page, closed the book, and said, "Here is the story. "Five hundred years ago " "Listen, Jean," said Christie; "we're gaun to get a boeny story. 'Five hundre' years ago," added she, with interest and awe. "Was a great battle," resumed the narrator, in cheerful tones, as one larking with history, "between a king of England and his rebels.
I have sifted the whole city, and, barrin' the three dozen I made out already, I can't find hilt or hair of another. Faith, sir, she ought to be worth something when she's got, for I may fairly say she has cost me trouble enough at any rate, the skulkin' thief, whoever she is; and me to lose my hundre' pounds into the bargain bad scran to her!" "Only find me the true Mrs.
I do all I can to let her see that we are not aiquils; but the thoughtless girl won't be convinced. I belong to a family, sir, that always suffered for our counthry. Widin the last six hundre' years, I have it from sound authority, that there never was a ruction on Irish ground that wasn't the manes of havin' some o' them hanged or transported, glory be to God! An' you know, Mr.
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