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Now I'm sending one or two of them back to you. Mary Virginia showed me that letter, too, because she was so delighted with it, and so proud of it. I like its English very well, but I like its Irishness even better. But, although she had at last finished and done with school, Mary Virginia didn't come home to us as we had hoped she would.
And she kissed me, with misty eyes, and such a tender face! That put such a friendly, warm glow in my heart that I was sorry to part even with the Englishman's daughter, Athena though she was, and I mortally afraid of her. As for her father, he was bewailing the parting with Alicia, whose Irishness was a manna in the wilderness to him.
"After all, it is much more fun to dance than to learn grammar...." "But this is the Irish language," Marsh persisted, as if the Irishness of the tongue transcended the drudgery of learning grammar. Mr. Quinn crumpled the Northern Whig and threw it at Marsh's head. "You an' your oul' language!" he exclaimed. "What good'll it do anybody but a lot of professors.
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