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"Mysthery, sir why, where was there ever a widow since the creation of Peter White, that hadn't more or less of mysthery about her?" "Well, but what was the mystery here?" asked the other. "I do not perceive any, so far."
Now, sir, whether to consider that an advantage or disadvantage is another mysthery to me. There's some women, and they have such a small, rosy, little mouth, that a man must gather up his lips into a bird's bill to kiss them. Now, there's Miss Gour " A look of fury from his master divided the word in his mouth, and he paused from terror.
"'But if all the dead min that lave wifes aisily consoled for their loss, were to come back, there'd be plinty of haunted houses, said Peter, pithily. "'Well, we'll watch there the night, and try to find out the mysthery, said the priest. 'But I'm off to matins. Be sure and see that Mrs. Hartigan has the breakfast ready when I return.
An' A've got other proofs furbye, that we'll go over wan be wan. It's a mysthery, Tammas." "It is indeed." Whilst replying, I was constrained to glance round at the weather; and my eye happened to fall on the creeper-laden pine, a quarter of a mile away. Suddenly a strange misgiving seized me, and I asked involuntarily, "Do you have many swagmen calling round here?"
An' his Raverince said it was a mysthery, an' swore if he cotched anyone laughin' at the accident, he'd lay the horsewhip across their shouldhers. 'An' Terence grew fonder an' fonder iv the gandher every day, until at last he died in a wondherful old age, lavin' the gandher afther him an' a large family iv childher.
"As easy as kiss," says his Riv'rence. "In the first, we're to understand that the exprission, 'Every sinsible man, signifies simply, 'every man that judges by his nath'ral sinses'; and we all know that nobody follying them seven deludhers could ever find out the mysthery that's in it, if somebody didn't come in to his assistance wid an eighth sinse, which is the only sinse to be depended on, being the sinse ov the Church.
"Take your time, sir," replied Dandy; "it's comin'. The young performer on the Pandeans that I tould you of wasn't more than five or six at the most, but a woman over the way, that I made inquiries of, tould me the length o' time the husband was dead. Do you undherstand the mysthery now, sir?" "Go on," replied the other; "I am amused by you; but I don't see the mystery, notwithstanding.
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