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If he did murdher Sullivan, was it in his own defence? was it a cool murdher? a cowardly murdher? because if it was, Condy Dalton is a bad man. But still listen: it's now near two-an'-twenty years since the deed was done. I know little about religion, father; you know that; but still I have heard that God is willin' to forgive all men their sins if they repent of them; if they're sorry for them.
"You're goin' to Condy Dalton's," replied Nelly, with much coolness, but whether assumed or not it is difficult to say; "look into his face, and try what you can find there. At any rate, report has it that there's blood upon his hand, an' that the downfall of himself and his family is only the vengeance of God, an' the curse of murdher that's pursuin' him and them."
"You're wrong," said the wife "you're wrong, Widow Kelly, in saying that my husband murdhered him: he did not murdher him; for when you and yours were far from him, I heard John Grimes declare before the God who's to judge him, that he had no thought or intention of taking his life; he struck him in anger, and the blow did him an injury that was not intended.
He was tried and found guilty of murdher in the county of Cork, and the worst of it was that it was in the act of robbin' a gentleman's house that the murdher was committed. While he was in gaol I contrived to get into him, and we managed so well that he escaped, and I was kept in his place.
But it was diff'rint wid the others, an' why I cannot say, excipt that some men are borrun mane an' go to dhirty murdher where a fist is more than enough. Afther a whoile, they changed their chune to me an' was desp'rit frien'ly all twelve av thim cursin' O'Hara in chorus. "'Eyah, sez I, 'O'Hara's a divil an' I'm not for denyin' ut, but is he the only man in the wurruld? Let him go.
Clashing, rattling, cursing, swearing, laughing, shouting, trampling, stumbling, driving, slamming of doors. "Hu-r-ry 'em UP." "Flanagan," said Dr. Renton, stopping at the first landing, "do you have this noise every night?" "Naise? Hoo! Divil a night, docther, but I'm wehked out ov me bed wid 'em, Sundays an' all. Sure didn't they murdher wan of 'em, out an' out, last night!" "Is the man dead?"
He wint to France. It's always been obsarved that, whin a dinnymiter had to blow up annything in London, he laves th' counthry. Th' polis, now thoroughly aroused, acted with commindable promptness. They arristed Tynan in Booloon f'r th' murdher iv Cavendish. "Thus," said Mr.
"You might say," she said, after a pause, "that I hope he's gettin' his health where he is." "I've said that twyste before," Isaac objected severely. "Och, murdher, have you?" said Norah, reverting to the rafters with a distracted gaze. "Couldn't you tell him the price your father got for the last baste he sould?" said Isaac.
The Cavanagh family is but an upstart one at best; it wants antiquity, ma'am a mere affair of yesterday, so what after all could you expect from it?" Honest Jemmy looked at him and then groaned. "An upstart family! that'll do oh, murdher well, 'tis respectable at all events; however, as to havin' the Hogans about them they wor always about them; it was the same in their father's time.
"I was thinkin' about that," he replied, "and had some talk this mornin' wid a man that's livin' a long time indeed that was born a little above the place and he says that the Black Prophet, or M'Gowan, did not come to the neighborhood till afther the murdher.
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