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"Nothing easier, Miss Ruth. I will take an afternoon train, run down, hire a lodgin', come up to-morrow, an' carry the Miss Seawards off wi' me." "But suppose they won't go?" "But they must go. I'm quite able to take up one under each arm an' carry 'em off by force if they won't."
It ran that her son Ned was "after seein' Denis O'Meara down beyant, and that he was doin' finely, next door to himself again: and that the people in the Town did be sayin' he was coortin' Mary Anne Neligan, the people's daughter that he was lodgin' wid a terrible fortin she was said to have and that he'd be very apt to be takin' her along wid him prisintly when his lave was up." Mrs.
I came to this country from Ohio seven years ago, an' I learned a whole lot about hospitality durin' the journey. I learned how to treat a stranger in a strange land fer one thing, an' I learned that even a hoss-thief ain't an ongrateful cuss if you give him a night's lodgin' and a meal or two." "I shall be greatly indebted to you, sir.
In this singular costume did we advance the rain all the time falling in torrents. The town, however, was not far distant, and we arrived at a little thatched house, where "dry lodgin'" was offered above the door, both to "man and baste;" and never did an unfortunate group stand more in need of dry lodging, for we were wet to the skin.
This was an experiment, though a hazardous one, as we have said; but so far it was successful. In the course of half an hour the Red Rapparee came in, dressed in his uniform. On looking about him he exclaimed, with an oath, "Who the hell is here?" "Why," replied Mary Mahon, "a poor ould man that axed for charity an' lodgin' for the night." "And why did you give it to him?"
"But he give us the night's lodgin' and some breakfast," said Sandy. Ricks took a long drink from a short bottle, then holding it before him, he said impressively: "A feller could do me ninety-nine good turns, and if he done me one bad one it would wipe 'em all out. I got to git even with anybody what does me dirty, if it takes me all my life." "But don't you forget to remember?" "Not me.
''Tis the mother will give the poor Irisher a lodgin' and a drop o' the cratur, cried that mother's well-beloved eldest born almost catching her up in his arms, and smothering her with kisses. 'And the masther isn't so hard-hearted as he looks, he added, shaking the astonished farmer by the hand.
This was a strange sentiment from the work-broken old man who, for himself, would have held ornamental idleness sinful. He finished his supper in brooding silence. At last he broke out in a peevish irritation that only made his grief at parting with Bobby more apparent to an understanding man like Mr. Traill. "I dinna ken what to do wi' 'im i' an Edinburgh lodgin' the nicht.
"Yes, I lost every penny, and had to sleep out, cos I hadn't a cent to pay for lodgin'. 'Twas a awful cold night, and I got most froze." "Wouldn't Jim let you have any of the money he had won to pay for a lodging?" "No; I axed him for five cents, but he wouldn't let me have it." "Can you get lodging for five cents?" asked Frank, in surprise. "Yes," said Dick, "but not at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
Now he was back in New York to look after the investments his guardian had made, and he found them so ridiculously satisfactory that they cast a shadow of dullness across his mind, always hungry for activity. "Have you a place to sleep?" he asked, at length. "I live in Jersey City, but I suppose I can find a cheap lodgin' house down by d' river. Trouble is, I ain't got d' price."
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