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'Oh, not for the wide world, whispered the matron, in great alarm. 'Whisht! is that her coming? 'No; there she is across the street talking to Mrs. Nutter. Listen to me: I'll manage that lady, Mrs. Mary what's her name? Matchwell. I'll take her in hands, and whisper now. So Toole entered into details, and completed an officious little conspiracy; and the upshot of it was that Mrs.
But well in health, what I'm certain shure he is, taken the law of Mary Matchwell bless the Mark to get her emprisind and Publickly wiped by the commin hangman. All which rhapsody conjured up a confused and dyspeptic dream, full of absurd and terrific images, which she could not well comprehend, except in so far as it seemed clear that some signal disaster had befallen Sturk.
I'll hold you a crown he's in Dublin with the sheriff, going to cart that jade to Bridewell. And why in the world didn't you send for me, when you wanted to discourse with Mary Matchwell? Where was the good of my poor dear mother? Why, she's as soft as butter. 'Twas a devil like me you wanted, you poor little darling.
'At your service, Sir, said Mary Matchwell, dropping a demure courtesy, and preparing to sail by him. 'Not so fast, Ma'am, if you please, said Toole, astonished, but still sternly and promptly enough. 'In with you, Moggy, and bar the kitchen door. And shoving the maid back, he swung the door to, with a slam.
He was barely in time, and Mary Matchwell, baffled and pale, confronted the doctor, with the devil gleaming from her face. 'Who are you, man, that dare shut my own door in my face? said the beldame. 'Toole's my name, Madam, said the little doctor, with a lofty look and a bow. 'I have the honour to attend here in a professional capacity.
Matchwell advanced her face towards the widow's tearful countenance, and held her in the spell of her dreadful gaze as a cat does a bird. 'Why, curse you, woman, do you think 'tis to rob you I mean? 'tisn't a present even only a loan. Stop that blubbering, you great old mouth! or I'll have you posted all over the town in five minutes.
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