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On concluding, he winked again at old Ned, and touched his pocket as before. "Mr. Amby, be quiet," said Ned, rather complacently though, "an' let daicent Mrs. Mulroony go on."
Ned, however, was strictly impartial, and declined, with most commendable virtue, to recognize the signal, until he saw whether Mrs. Mulroony did not understand "generosity" as well as Mr. Gray. "Misther Gray, I'll thank you to button your lip, if you plaise. It's all very right, I suppose; but in the manetime let daicent Mrs. Mulroony tell her own story. How is it, ma'am?"
"In both, most reverend senior, and I act on scriptural principles; for what does Job say? 'Base is the slave that patient pays." "Well, my good fellow, if you don't pay, you'll be apt to receive, some fine day, that's all," and here he made a motion with his arm, as if he were administering the cat-o'-nine-tails; "however, this is not my business. Here comes Mrs. Mulroony to make her charge.
The villain, to go to toss such a woman to go to take such scandalous liberties! Go on, ma'am go on, my dear Mrs. Mulroony." "Well, my dear, he offered, as I said, to toss me for it double or quits and when I wouldn't stand that, he asked me if I would allow him to kiss it in, at so many kisses a-day; but I told him that coin wouldn't pass wid me."
It must have been quite a pleasure to have suffered from such a scientific hand as yours. How do you do again, Mrs. Mulroony? Mrs. Mulroony, I hope you did not come without some refreshment. And you'll withdraw the charge, for the sake of futurity, Mrs. Mulroony." "If you do, Mrs. Mulroony," said Darby, "I'm afraid you'll have to look to futurity for payment.
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