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'T is the old fashioned min like mesilf that think however will they get souls through this life and through heaven's gate at last, wid clane names and God-fearin', dacint names left after them. Thim was his own words indade." "Idication was his cry always," said Bridget, blessing herself in the dark.
"Och! indade, yes; it's betther than an empty brid-basket; but if yez could only taste a small thrifle ov a Wicklow ham this mornin', an' a smilin' pratie, instid of this brown soap, yez ." "Hisht!" said Lincoln, starting suddenly, and holding the bite half-way to his mouth. "What is it?" I asked. "I'll tell yer in a minit, Cap'n."
When she told you it was a fine morning, she seemed also to be telling you you were a fool and a low fool to boot; when she was spoken to, she had a way of acknowledging your poor tinkle of utterance with a voluminous, scornful "Haw!" that made you want to burn her alive. She also had a way of saying "Indade!" with a droop of the eyelids. Mrs.
"I cud swear as manny oaths on that point as there are hairs in yer head," said Judy. "And what would you say, Mrs. Haskell, if the judge said to you: Now, madam, it's very easy for you to say you know the young man to be the same person as the runaway boy; but how do you know it? what makes you think you know it?" "I'd say he was purty sassy, indade.
"Which is it, doctor dear?" inquired Phil. "This one I am pressing now." "Arrah! don't press so hard, plaze, it's hurtin' me ye are. Shure that's the place where I run me head slap up agin the spanker-boom four days ago. Av that's me bump o' vineration, it wos three times as big an' twice as hard yisterday it wos, indade."
"I want to know when we can get our timber out." "Depinds intoirly on yirsilf," said Murphy. "When will your logs be out of the way?" "Indade an' that's a ha-r-r-d one," laughed Murphy. "And will you tell me what right hev you to close up the river?" Black Hugh's wrath was rising. "You wud think now it wuz yirsilf that owned the river. An' bedad it's the thought of yir mind, it is.
"Dan, when I was hungry you took me in and fed me. For that I've given you a good position. Is that debt paid?" "Sure, Clement, me boy, it was only a sup of p'taties an' bacon, annyway." "Biddy, I turned over two thousand dollars to you, and rebuilt your eating-house. You thought that paid the debt I owed you?" Biddy was slower to answer. "For all the grub an' the loikes o' that, indade yis, Mr.
We endeavoured to gain from him a description of the animal he had seen, but for some time were unable. "What color was the animal?" enquired Mrs. . "Indade Ma'am, an' its jist the color uv a dog he was," answered Terry. This reply was greeted with a burst of laughter from all present, at which he was highly offended.
Francis replied quickly with her most winning smile, as she seated herself in a rocking-chair. "Are the children all well? Dear little Danny, how is he?" "Indade, ma'am, that same Danny is the upsettinest one of the nine, and him only four come March. It was only this morn's mornin' that he sez to me, sez he, as I was comin' away, 'Ma, d'ye think she'll give ye pie for your dinner?
I'm too glad to have an orator in the family. I can now put my orator against Mary Everard's priest, and be as proud as she is." "The pride was born in ye," said Judy. "You won't have to earn it. Indade, ye'll have a new flirt to yer tail, an' a new toss to yer head, every day from now to his next speech." "Why shouldn't I? I'm his mother," with emphasis.
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