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She war well enough yesterday, I think, and I heard more of her then than I wished." Biddy now pulled her cloak from off her head, settled it over her shoulders, and prepared for telling a good substantial story. "Oh, Misthress Kelly, ma'am, there's been disperate doings last night up at the house.
'But you can't come in, for the house is shut up for the night, replied the cook. ''Tis a quare hour you lock your doors at, said the besieger. 'Mighty quare, but so it is, she answered. 'But 'tis a message for the misthress I have, answered the applicant. 'Who from? demanded the porteress. ''Tis a present o' some wine, acushla. 'Who from? repeated she, growing more uneasy.
Some days had gone by, when one morning, as Paddy Doyle was on the watch, he sang out, "Here comes my old friend with his wife and family. The top of the morning to ye, Mr Pullingo! and the same to the misthress and the darling little ones; and, to be sure, one of them is a big sthrapping fellow, of whom ye may be proud, Mr Pullingo."
"My sister, Captain Ussher, has long been left her own misthress to go in and out as she plazes, without lave from father, mother, or brother; better perhaps for her that she had not! God knows I have seldom stopped her wishes, though may be not often able to forward them. If she likes she may go now to Aughermore, but if a brother's love is anything to her, she'll stay this day with me."
Why, Ma'am dear, if 'twas what they wor goin' to slaughter a bullock they wouldn't ax more nor that. 'Oh! don't. Oh! Katty, Katty don't, oh don't' 'An' why wouldn't I, my darlin' misthress, tell you what's doin', the way you would not be dhruv out o' your senses intirely if you had no notion, Ma'am dear, iv what they're goin' to do to him?
The misthress herself can only overlook cattle, bekaise both her eyes is of the one color; but Masther Harry could overlook either man or woman if he wished. And how do you think that comes?" "The Lord knows," replied the cook, crossing herself; "from no good, at any rate.
"Ah, Misther Burke," replied Peety, in a tone of gratitude peculiar to his class, "you're the ould* man still ever an' always the large heart an' lavish hand an' so sign's on it full an' plinty upon an' about you an' may it ever be so wid you an' yours, a chierna, I pray. An how is the misthress, sir?" * That is to say, the same man still.
But about the 'slip, sir if the misthress herself 'ud shake the whisp o' sthraw fwhor her in the far carner o' the kitchen below, an' see her gettin' her supper, the crathur, before she'd put her to bed, she'd be thrivin' like a salmon, sir, in less than no time; and to ardher the sarwints, sir, if you plase, not to be defraudin' the crathur of the big phaties.
They will be so glad to know that you are alive, though you both look sadly tired and thin." "No wonder, Misthress Lily," observed Mike; and he gave an account of my illness.
"Gone to borrow whisky, to wake ould Kate, there; the howling will begin whenever Mother Doncannon and Misthress Conolly come over from Middleton, and I look for dem every minute." There was no vestige of any living thing in the miserable hovel, except the old fellow.
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