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It's the wondher of the world how he picks up a jinteel thing any how, an' ever did, since he was the hoith o' that." "Why," said the mother, "what a norration yez rise about thratin' the boy as every one like him ought to be thrated.
"Troth, as to religion," observed the mother, "the poor boy doesn't trouble his head much about it bat it's not aisy for one that goes into jinteel society to do so an' that's what makes Hycy ait mate of a Friday as fast as on any other day." "I am sorry to hear that, mother," replied Edward; "but Hycy is a very young man still, and will mend all these matters yet."
Won't he have all his father's wealth? won't he have all his land when the ould man dies? and indeed it's he that will live in jinteel style when he gets everything into his own hands, as he ought to do, an' not go dhramin' an' dhromin' about like his ould father, without bein' sartin whether he's alive or not.
I would at once know you from it, and so would most of your friends." "This day is Friday," said Hycy, "more growling." "Why so?" "Why, when I eat meat on a Friday, the pepper and sauce cost me nothing. The 'gentlemen' lays on hard, but the lady extenuates, 'in regard to it's bein' jinteel." "Well, but you have certainly no scruple yourself on the subject?"
"Well, well," observed one of the fellows, who had assisted in holding her down during these wild fits, "you may talk of jinteel people, but be the piper o' Moses, that same sick daughter of the Bodagh's is the hardiest sprout I've laid my hands on this month o' Sundays."
Whoo!" he proceeded, cutting a caper more than a yard high, "show me the man now, that would dar to say bow to your beg pardon, ladies, I must be jinteel for your sakes that would dar, I say, to look crucked at you or one a' your family, and maybe the Cannie Soogah wouldn't rise the lap of his liver. Come, young ladies, shall I make my display?
"What the devil do you mean, Corrigan?" said Phil, once more in a fluster; "what kind of respect is that in our presence? what kind of respect is that, I say? Take off your wig, sir." "With great respect to you, sir," replied Corrigan, "I have been in as jinteel company as this, and it's the first time ever I was axed to take my wig off."
"Arrah, Captain, avourneen, hadn't you betther get upon a stool," said a voice, "an' put a text before it, thin divide it dacently into three halves, an' make a sarmon of it." "Captain, you wor intended for the church," added another. "Let him alone," said a third; "he'd be a jinteel man enough in a wildherness, an' 'ud make an illigant dancin'-masther to the bears."
It was studded with bonfires, which were surrounded by wild groups of both sexes, some tolerably dressed, some ragged as Lazarus, and others young urchins with nothing but a slip of rag tied about their loins "to make them look jinteel and daicent."
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