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"Kathleen, asthore," he replied, in those terms of endearment which flow so tenderly through the language of the people; "sure whin I remimber your fair young face your yellow hair, and the light that was in your eyes, acushla machree but that's gone long ago och, don't ax me to stop.
"In throth, they are, machree: but shure I'll sware to id; an', besides, you know, the raal murdherer may be discovered for God never lets it, ov all other crimes, go athout punishment. An' now I'll just go to the barracks at onst, an' be out ov suspinse."
I'm an unfortunate man wid sich a fate before me; an' yet I'd shed my blood for my boy I would, an' he ought to know that I would; but he wouldn't ax me to starve for him would you, Connor, avick machree, would you ax your father to starve? I'm unhappy unhappy an' my heart's breakin'!"
Glory be to Heaven! what a meetin' we'll have! An' the nabors, too! Push an' avick machree." "My curse upon you, Friar Hennessy!" exclaimed the priest, in a soliloquy, "it was you who first taught this four-footed snail to go like a thief to the gallows. I wish to Heaven you had palmed him on some one else, for many a dinner I have lost by him in my time. Is that your gratitude, gentlemen?
"Now," said he, "you all see that you all see that he won't kiss me again, and that is bekaise he can't do it; Atty, Atty," he said, "won't you speak to me? it's I, Atty, sure it's I, Atty dear, your lovin' father, that's callin' you to spake to him. Atty dear, won't you spake to me do you hear my voice, asthore machree do you hear your father's voice, that's callin' on you to forgive him?"
"Torley, my manly son, I'll come, for I'm jist ready. "Hugh, husband of my heart, you're not now lyin' sick upon the damp cowld straw, as you war in the cabin on the mountains your head has no pain now, avick machree nor is your heart low and sorrowful wid your own illness and our want.
At length she spoke. "Father, I have a request to ask of you." "If it's within my power, Una darling, I'll grant it; and if it's not, it'll go hard with me but I'll bring it within my power. What is it, asthore machree?" "In case he's found guilty, to let John put off his journey to Maynooth, and stay with me for some time it won't be long I'll keep him."
Her mind has been poisoned against him; but little she knows him, or she'd not turn from him as she did. An' now, Bridget, asthore machree, is it come to this wid me? I must lave you for ever. I must lave as my father said, that went this day to heaven as you know, now I must lave, as he said, the ould places.
Come, throth we'll drink her health in another tumbler, and a speedy uprise to her, asthore machree that she is, an' when I think of how she set every one of her people at defiance, and took her lot wid myself so nobly, my heart burns wid love for her, ay, I feel my very heart burnin' widin me." Two tumblers were again mixed, and Margaret's health was drunk.
"Now," said he, "there was an ould Irish air that Peggy used to sing for me I thought I heard her often singin' it of late did I?" "I suppose so, darlin'," replied his mother; "I suppose you did." "Mary, here," he proceeded, "sings it; I would like to hear it before I go; it's the air of Gra Gal Machree." "Before you go, alanna!" exclaimed his father, pressing him tenderly to his breast.
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