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And Johnny and Katty and the rest might all come into view paddling round any corner. When the car stopped at the gap through which you got into the field just behind his cottage, he was almost beside himself with joy, as his fellow-travellers, who were less elated, lifted him down and handed him his bundle, and bade him run straight in to his mother like an iligant child.
"Perhaps you're right, Andy," she said, smiling. "At any rate we won't cry till it's time." "To-morrow I'll go out and see if I can find work." "Suppose you don't find it, Andy?" suggested his sister. "Then I'll take in washing," said Andy, laughing. "It's an iligant washer I'd make, wouldn't I now?" "Nobody'd hire you more than once, Andy." By and by they had supper.
So wid that I'd take a race home and be tellin' you all the iligant thing was after happenin'. And in the middle of it who'd come landin' in but me father and mother, and little Dan. And then, if it isn't the grand cup of tay I'd be makin' her, ay begorra would I, and a sugarstick to stir it wid." Johanna's vision of the millennium was broken in upon querulously by Thady.
She was nevertheless resolved to put the best possible face upon the situation. "Well, Mrs. Joyce, ma'am, and how's yourself this long while?" said Jerry Dunne, coming up. "Bedad I'm glad to see you so finely, and it's an iligant place you've got up here." "Ah, it's not too bad whatever," said Mrs. Joyce, "on'y 'twas a great upset on us turnin' out of the ould house at home.
We've a right to be lambastin' thim this blessed minute, the crathurs; as sure as eggs is mate, if they was mine they'd sup sorrow wid a spoon of grief, before they wint to bed this night! Mistress Colquhoun, that lives at Ardnagreena on the road to the town, is an iligant lady intirely, an' she's uncommon frindly, may the peace of heaven be her sowl's rist!
A fellow that construes by nature looks at a sentence, and spots the nominative in a moment makes verses rale, superior, iligant articles. 'But I thought he wasn't always accurate. Can't you catch him out? O Lance, don't look so fierce! I only said so because he can't want the exhibition as much as you. He can go to some other school, or be paid for.
But up amid the gorge of the hill side, he used to sit, with Katy, on pleasant summer evenings, playing so late that Katy would creep close to him, fancying she saw the "little folk," or fairies, dancing in the moonlight, to his delicious music. In the mean time, "Phelim," the pig, throve finely, and grew to be, as Mrs. O'Shaughnessy said, "an iligant cratur, intirely."
The river's fairly alive wid 'em, I'm tould: an' they risin' to a brown-bodied fly, Misther Arthur. 'We'll have a look at them some spare day, Andy. 'But what tuk my fancy intirely, was the iligant plan of bilin' 'em she had.
"Ah!" said Matilda. "Did you?" "Yes, of course. But I made her make up the bed and fill the kettle before she had done. 'An' sure it was iligant, and fit for society, she said; whatever that meant." "Fit for company, I suppose, David. But who made the coffee?" "Wait a bit: I'm coming to that. I was in a puzzle about it; for I wasn't sure of Mrs. Leary, and Norton and I didn't know enough."
They might have stuck little wooden pegs in your hide, then set fire to 'em, and then walked ye round for fireworks; or they might fill your ears with powder, and tech it off, and then watched the iligant exprission of your countenance.
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