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Three or four attempts to draw the silent woman into conversation were utterly abortive. 'Troth, an' you're a jewil of a wife, remarked the Irishman, when everything seemed done. 'I'll engage I won't have the good luck to get one wid her tongue in such good ordher. Mary Logan laughed. 'It be from having no folk to talk with, she said.
"''Tis a mother's love, ye haythen; 'pon me whurd, there's nothin' else like it. See how th' news affected th' poor old crayther. It puts me in mind av the time whin I had an old leddy t' look after me. 'Tis a rale jewil av a thing, an' a man only has it th' onct. "'More's th' pity, says Garnett. 'Sink ye, but ye sure are a tough one to tell th' old gal on so short notice.
"Oh, Eily, jewil, don't say that! don't!" he pleaded, his blue eyes looking earnestly into hers. "Whin ye go, you will take all the sunshine out of me poor heart; it's to Ameriky I will go, for nothin' will be the same to me without you, mavourneen! Eily, Eily, will ye stay?" But Eily was firm. "Faith, thin, I will not, Dermot! I'm weary of my life here; I want to see London and the world.
"Sure, I thought so!" exclaimed the Irishman, eagerly grasping his treasure. "Erin go bragh! long life to yese, me jewil!" and clapping the instrument to his chin, he made an attempt to play on it; but it required, as may be supposed, no small amount of tuning.
"Shure you are the only one of the crathers he ever made who can love poor John Monaghan. Brothers and sisters I have none I stand alone in the wurld, and your bonny wee face is the sweetest thing it contains for me. Och, jewil! I could lay down my life for you, and be proud to do that same." Though careless and reckless about everything that concerned himself, John was honest and true.
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