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She was boastin' of the fine place she had, an' th' illigant carriage that was comin' t' take her to the counthry. If that's it I want none of it! I'll go wid you an' th' young gintleman. Style indade!" and, gathering up her bundle she followed Tom and Mary to the waiting auto. They entered it and started off, just as Mrs.
They call her the Clermont; but it's mesilf as thinks she ought to be Fulton's Folly, for divil a bit do I believe she'll go a cable's length." Fernando and his new acquaintance drew nearer. The hissing of the steam and the roaring of the furnaces were fearful. "Do you know Robert Fulton?" Fernando asked. "Indade, I do. Would you like to see the greatest lunatic out of Bedlam?
"Is Miss Hazard in, Kitty?" "Indade she's in, Mr. Bridshaw, but she won't see nobody." "What's the meaning of that, Kitty? Here is the third time within three days you've told me I could n't see her. She saw Mr. Gridley yesterday, I know; why won't she see me to-day?" "Y' must ask Miss Myrtle what the rason is, it's none o' my business, Mr. Bridshaw. That's the order she give me."
"What do you wish to say?" inquired the lady, seeing that Kitty hesitated to speak of what was on her mind. "Indade, mum," said Kitty, evincing much perplexity, "I hardly know what I ought to do. But yez were good to me, mum, when I was sick and didn't send me off to the poor house like some girls are sent; and I never can forget yez while there's breath in me body.
"'We've come up, your riverence, to see if you'd plaze to marry us this night. They tould us you wor angry, sur, and, indade, I don't blame you; for you don't know all. The man who lies dead beyant was able to give me a home, and to keep a roof over the heads of my poor father and mother, and I gave up Lanty here for him.
Burr's out and about again." "The axidint, at the Hospital. No, indade! And how's the poor woman, hersilf? It was the blissin' of God she wasn't kilt on the spot!" "It warn't a bad bit of luck. She'll be out of hospital next week, I'm told. They're taking their time about it, anyhow! Good-night to ye, missis! The rain's holdin' off." And Uncle Mo departed.
It's a truth that he's been drinking. Ye can smell it off of him, more blame to him. But, indade, and there's nothing in the house beyont the furnicher, and Thim Stock. It's the stock that ye'll be taking, dear. A sore penny it has cost me, first and last, and by all tales, not worth an owld tobacco pipe."
"Won't a dollar pay you?" asked Mrs. Lane, after standing with her eyes upon the floor for some moments. "I've had nothing but my night's lodging and surely a dollar will pay for that." "Indade and it won't, then! Sure, and yer breakfast was got. If ye didn't ate it, I'm not to fault. "Here is a dollar," said Mrs. Lane, taking out her purse. "I'm sure it's full pay for all I've received."
Fitzpatrick, surely you will say that it was a case of cruel neglect on the part of the prisoner that he should leave her to care for herself and her children, a stranger in a strange land." "Indade, it's not fer me to be runnin' down the counthry," exclaimed Mrs. Fitzpatrick.
Errol laughing with delight at the quaint things he said. "And; indade," said Mary to the groceryman, "nobody cud help laughin' at the quare little ways of him and his ould-fashioned sayin's!
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