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'Pon me word it 'ud have looked elegant beyant." "Would ye have goold letthers on it, ma'am?" put in Peggy Murphy admiringly. "I seen wan at Kilpedder wan time that I went up when a cousin o' me own was buried, an' it was the loveliest ye ever seen.
I found it in a hole in the wall in our house to-day; it tumbled out while I was gettin' some cobwebs to stop a bleedin'." "Was it a good one?" asked Hanlon, with apparent carelessness, "could one use it?" "Hardly; but no, it's all rusty, an' has but one hinge." "But one hinge!" repeated the other, who was almost breathless with anxiety; "an' the letthers what's this you say they wor?"
She looked at the papers on the table; stopped as if she was going to ask a question, but thought better of it, and going to the cupboard, selected an eligible piece of bread wherewith she might operate on the satin slippers: and afterwards coming back to the table, seated herself there commodiously with the shoes, and then asked her father, in her honest, Irish brogue, "What have ye got them letthers, and pothry, and stuff, of Master Arthur's out for, Pa?
"Ah, ay, I have it; stoop a little; take care of your hat; here now," and while speaking she wiped the cold perspiration from his forehead. "Is this the one she made you a present of, an' put the letthers on?" "It is," he replied, "the very same but she didn't make me a present of it, she only hemmed it for me."
'With th' aid iv a small boy, who can shovel more love letthers an' pothry overboard thin anny wan I iver see, he says, 'I'm able to clane up me hero business before noon ivry day, he says. 'What's ye'er name? he says. 'Hobson, says th' loot. 'Niver heerd iv ye, says Cousin George.
"Well, be my sowl," said Darby, who was the first to break the silence that followed these observations; "if you were Lord Cumber himself, instead of his brother, I'd call that same tratement of me as purty a piece of ingratitude as ever came acrass me; me that gave you most of the information that sould them both, I may say an' the letthers too that convicted them, are they forgotten?"
But it was the letthers from me ould mother, Miss, that is sthruck wid a mortial illness long life to her! in County Clare, and me sisthers in Ninth Avenue in New York, fornint the daypo, that is brekken their harruts over me listin' in the Fourth Infanthry to do duty in a haythen wilderness.
She had anny number of letthers to the Pope. I suppose that's how we all got in, for I wint too, an' the three of us looked like sisters of mercy, dhressed in black wid veils on our heads. Whin we dhruv up to the palace, her ladyship gev a screech.
'Pray, can you direct me to Billy Egg's? I asked, dropping the Mr altogether, and adopting the familiar term which had been used to me. 'Och, then, to be shure I will, an' welcome, if it was a mile off; but there it's just furnint ye that big grand shop there, wid the big letthers gilt wid goold over the big windees.
"Well, he sint out letthers to all th' Roscommon Dooleys; an' on a Saturdah night we come together in a rinted hall an' held th' reunion. 'Twas great sport f'r a while.
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