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"Here, my darlin' treasure o' my heart here I'm puttin' your head upon my breast upon my breast, Ellish, ahagur. Marciful Virgin Father dear," said Peter, bursting into bitter tears "her head's like fire! O! Ellish, Ellish, Ellish! but my heart's brakin' to feel this! Have marcy on her, sweet God have marcy on her! Bear witness, Father of heaven bear witness, an' hear the vow of a brakin' heart.
"Now, I'll tell ye wot it is, Mister Gascoyne," said Dick Price, "I do believe yer not such a bad feller as they say ye are, an' I'm disposed to be marciful to ye. If ye'll give me your word of honour that you'll not holler out, and that you'll go with us peaceably, and do wot yer bid, I'll not trouble you with the napkin, nor bind ye up more than I've done already. Now, wot say ye to that?"
"Ay, ay, lad, you've got it; 'tis poor Dick's pig right enow." "But you're never going to take it to E ?" "Ay, but I be, and comin' back alone, if the Lord be marciful. The missus has been terrible bad this two mouths and more; Squire's in foreign parts; and food-stuffs such as the old woman wants is hard buying for poor folks.
"So Connor dear," proceeded the old man, not attending to him, "in makin' any bargain, Connor, be sure to make as hard a one as you can; but for all that be honest, an' never lind a penny o' money widout interest." "I think he's wandherin'," whispered his mother. "Oh grant it may be so, marciful Jasus this day!" "Honor ahagur." "Well, darlin', what is it?"
He had squandered a nickel in trying to head off the flow of the storekeeper's story, and felt that he was entitled to something besides the Brown Mule. Cap'n Abe kept to his course apparently unruffled: "Cap'n Am'zon an' the other feller lashed the poor chap han's an' feet and so kep' him from goin' overboard. But mebbe 'twarn't a marciful act after all.
He stopped at the top, his cowardly nature getting the better of him, and sat down whining on the upper step. "Be marciful, Mas'r! I wanted to see my girl, that's all. She's all I hev." Holmes passed him and went in. Was Christmas nothing to him? How did this foul wretch know that they stood alone, apart from the world?
I don't care about myself, not a single curse; you and as many more fools as choose can laugh at me until you're all tired; but mind I won't have a word said about them; if this gets abroad they'll be made uncomfortable, and I won't have it D'ye hear, mates, I WON'T HAVE IT. The first man that says a word about it well" with a powerful effort to curb his passion "the best thing he can do is to take to the water and swim right out to sea; for the sharks 'll be more marciful to him than I will."
"Why thin! eh! it must it can be no other!" exclaimed Farrell's wife, bringing! over a candle and looking Owen earnestly in the face; "sure I'd know that voice all the world over! Why, thin, marciful Father Owen M'Carthy, Owen M'Carthy, is it your four quarthers that's livin' an' well?
Betty knitted her brows in perplexity. 'If you've been through tribulation, you must be very nearly ready for heaven the Bible says so. 'Ay, do it? Let's hear, missy; for sure I've had my lot o' woe, and the Lord do be marciful! For a second time that afternoon Betty repeated the text that was so occupying her mind and thoughts. The old man listened attentively.
* God is sometimes thus termed in Ireland. By "Man" here is meant person or being. He is also called the "Man above;" although this must have been intended for, and often is applied to, Christ only. "Your first, is it?" said the good woman. "Your first! May the marciful queen o' heaven look down upon yees, but it's a bitther day yees war driven out in! Sit down, there, you poor crathur.
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