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"Dear, dear, how she thrimbles!" cried Bridget, "Don't be so frightful, lanna machree there, now they're taking Jack away, and you're alone with myself and will have a nice sleep." The men all the time were removing Shan More to upper air; and the last sounds they heard as they left the cave were the coaxing tones of Bridget's voice, inviting Andy, in the softest words, to go to bed.
A lanna, said Judy, 'there's no fear of you; sure it's only over the stone bridge we're going. 'Bad luck to you, you old rip! cried he, 'what a pretty trick you've played me to bring me here! and still went on yelling, and the farther they got on the bridge the louder he yelled; till at last Mick could hold out no longer, so giving him a great skelp of the whip he had in his hand, 'Devil choke you, you brat! said he, 'will you never stop bawling? a body can't hear their ears for you. The moment he felt the thong of the whip he leaped up in the cradle, clapped the pipes under his arm, gave a most wicked grin at Mick, and jumped clean over the battlements of the bridge down into the water.
"Oh, then, but that voice is music itself, an' you are, by all accounts, the best of girls; I but sure we have all turned over a new leaf, poor child. I discovered how I was taken in an' dasaved; but sure I can't ait you an' a sweet morsel you'd be, a lanna dhas nor' can I run away wid you an' I seen the day that it's not my heart would hinder me to do that same.
And tell me, lanna machree, is my suspicions right in what I hear tell me the worst at oncet is she non compos?" "Oh, I never heerd her called by that name before," sobbed Oonah, "but she has a great many others just as bad." "Ow! ow! ow!" exclaimed Andy. "Now I know what Misther Dick laughed at; well, death before dishonour I'll go 'list for a sojer, and never live with her!"
Indeed, to speak the truth, and without disguise, I think that my heart is broken. Every one knows that a breaking heart is incurable." "You take it too much to yourself, a lanna dhas," said her mother; "but you must keep up your spirits, darlin' time will work wonders." "With me, mother, it never can."
"I wonder," said she, "that they do not speak to me before this, for they know I'm here. Ah," she proceeded, "there's his voice! my white-haired Brian's voice! what is it, 'darling? I'm listenin'! "'Come, mother, come, he says, 'we are waitin'! "Is it for me, a lanna dhas oge? "'Yes, he says, 'for you, mother dear, for you! "Well, Brian darlin', I'll come.
After I had received the sacrament, I observed a thin, sallow little man, with a pair of beads, as long as himself, moving from knot to knot, but never remaining long in the same place. At last he glided up to me, and in a whisper asked me if I knew him. I answered in the negative. "Oh, then, a lanna, ye war never here before?" "Never."
"You see, a lanna, I can't say that, without first hearin' their names." "My name is B ." "An' a dacent bearable name it is, darlin'. Is yer father of them da-cent people, the B s of Newtownlimavady, ahagur!" "Not that I know of."
Howandiver, there's no fast on the dhrink, anyhow, glory be to God! and so, as they wor sitting, afther dinner, taking their sup together, says the Pope, says he, "Thomaus," for the Pope, you know, spakes that away, and all as one as ov uz, "Thomaus a lanna," says he, "I'm tould you welt them English heretics out ov the face." "You may say that," says his Riv'rence to him again.
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