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"There was no time for axin', mother 't was done in a hurry, and I can't help it, so give us your blessing at once." "Tell me who is she, before I give you my blessin'?" "Shan More's sister, ma'am." "Yis, ma'am." "Oh, wirrasthru! plillelew! millia murther!" shouted the mother, tearing her cap off her head, "Oh blessed Vargin, holy St. Dominick, Pether an' Paul the 'possel, what'll I do?
You must deny your country, must ye? ye dingy renegade! the black North, but old Ireland still. But here's Connemara for ye take this and this Och, murther! What have we got here . . .?" "Who and what is this O'Donahue?" said I to Frank Ardry after we had descended into the street. "An ill-tempered Irishman," said Frank, "the most disagreeable animal alive, once a rare bird on the earth.
"Guardian angels I hear their voices singin' a dhrinking song Oh! if I had a dhrop o' water myself, for my mouth is as dhry as a lime-burner's wig and I on the top o' their house see there's the little blaze again I wondher is their chimbley afire Oh! murther, I'll die o' thirst Oh! if I had only one dhrop o' wather I wish it would rain or hail Hail, Mary, full o' grace whisht! what's that?"
But this had just the contrary effect; for the whilom Hostess of the Stag o' Tyne, enraged at the Indignity offered to her, did so bemaul and bewray Madam Macphilader with her tongue, shaking her fist at her meanwhile, that the Gaoleress in a fury clawed at least two handfuls of M. Drum's hair from her head, not without getting some smart clapperclawing in the face; whereupon she cries out "Murther" and "Mutiny" and "Prisonrupt," and sends post-haste for Justice Palmworm, her gossip indeed, and one of those trading magistrates that so disgraced our bench before Mr.
The water pipe had burst, and a stream, like a fountain, was now steadily falling into the cellar. "Bless their hearts!" exclaimed the old woman, "they haven't forgotten the poor. The dochthor's sent the water at last and I must lie still and take it." The first shock of the invading flood was a severe one. "Millia murther!" she exclaimed, "how could it is!
Her voice failed, but Kate Murphy gathered her into her arms. "Cry here, honey," she said, as if to a child. "Shure an' Oi don't know who it was got kilt out yonder, but Oi'm tellin' ye it niver was Jack Keith what did it murther ain't his stoyle." Headed as they were, and having no other special objective point in view, it was only natural for the two fugitives to drift into Sheridan.
But you are bound, Sir Knight, to a court, that, if fame speak true, boasts in its Queen the very miracle and mould of beauty." "It is some years since I saw the Queen of Naples," answered Adrian; "and I little dreamed then, when I gazed upon that angel face, that I should live to hear her accused of the foulest murther that ever stained even Italian royalty."
"Faix, mee Lard Bolingbroke, as sure as mee name's Jonathan Swift and I'm not so sure of that neither, for who knows his father's name? there's been a mighty cruel murther committed entirely. A child of Dick Steele's has been barbarously slain, dthrawn, and quarthered, and it's Joe Addison yondther has done it. Ye should have killed one of your own, Joe, ye thief of the world."
Th' divvil bent over me wid a knoife in his hands, an' Oi saw murther in his oies. Thin Oi didn't wait, but Oi shot him through th' head." "But I don't understand what all this has to do with the fear you profess to feel," said Hatch. "I didn't fancy you were a coward, O'Toole." "No more Oi am; but Porrfeeus dil Noort is a moighty dangerous mon, and he " "Is dead. You're not afraid of dead men?"
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