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"Dyin'!" he repeated "the misthress dyin' oh Susy, let a thousand childre go before her dyin'! did you say dyin'?" "Ay did I, an' it's truth too; but it's wid joy she's dyin' to see you kiss one of the purtiest young boys in all the barony of Lisnamona myself's over head and ears in love wid him already."
Why we ain't one of us the same we used to be. I know I ain't. I reckon myself's jest about eight years old, if I have got three boys. That makes me born the summer before her Reuby, 'an that's jest the time I was born, when my Benjy was seven months old!" "You're jest crazy about Mis' Kinney, Angy Plummer," said her mother.
Then she turned again to the story of her wrongs. "And of all the pest holes I ever seen, this is the plum worst. There's chills an' fever an' typhoid till you can't rest, an' them kids is abustin' with measles an' mumps an' scarlet fever. That I ain't got 'em all myself's a miracle."
I could show reams of scented paper, to prove that this eagerness to make my acquaintance was not confined to the gentlemen only; but that I hate boasting, and only talk of myself in so far as it is necessary to relate myself's adventures: the most singular of any man's in Europe.
But never mind that, Anty: it wasn't about Barry, one way or the other, I was thinking, when I first asked you to have me; nor it wasn't about myself altogether, as I could let you know; though, in course, I'm not saying but that myself's as dear to myself as another, an' why not?
"You take me at some disadvantage, sir," said Mr Rounsell stiffly. "My daughter being from home on a holiday, and few people coming to this door at any time, unless it be to ask a small favour." "Well, and you've hit it: for myself's one of that same," Dr Mant assured him cheerily. "But business first! Jago's child has the measles.
On this level space were assembled those who came, either to clear their own character from suspicion, or to witness the ceremony. "Michael, am I in time?" might be heard from such persons, as they arrived: "did this business begin yit?" "Full time, Larry; myself's here an hour ago but no appearance of anything as yit.
"Very well," said Darby, "the blame be his, an' if it comes to that, the punishment; so far as myself's consarned, I say, let every herrin' hang by its own tail I must do my duty. But tell me, Poll hut, woman, never mind the Vulture let him go to the devil his own way tell me do you ever hear from your son Frank, that Brian M'Loughlin sent acrass?"
Throth, myself's not the betther of the fright you put me into." "No," replied Denis, "the Bishop treated me harshly, I thought: he said I was not properly fit. 'You might pass, said he, 'upon a particular occasion, or under peculiar circumstances; but it will take at least a year and a half's study to enable you to enter Maynooth as I would wish you.
What news, Bartle?" "Not much, Connor, but what you know a family that was strugglin', but honest, brought to dissolation. We're broken up; my father and mother's both livin' in a cabin they tuck from Billy Nuthy; Mary and Alick's gone to sarvice, and myself's just on my way to hire wid the last man I ought to go to your father, that is, supposin' we can agree."
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