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To do the father justice, it may be asserted that he knew his own weakness, and that, knowing it, he had abstained from heavy drinking since he had taken in hand this great piece of diplomacy. "But you must be hungry, governor; won't you take a bit of something?" "Shall we get you a steek, Mr. Mollett?" asked Miss O'Dwyer, hospitably, "or just a bit of bacon with a couple of eggs or so?
O'Dwyer of South Main Street, and therefore he was quite at home in the little back parlour of Mick O'Dwyer's house in Kanturk. Indeed Father Bernard was a man who made himself at home in the houses of most of his parishioners, and of some who were not his parishioners. His companions on the present occasion were two ladies who seemed to be emulous in supplying his wants.
I am a soft-hearted creature, and this minute, at sixty-two, have no more command of myself than when Peggy O'Dwyer made a fool of me at sixteen. ''Faith sir, says I, laughing, 'I think it runs in the family! and described to him, much to his amusement, my romantic passion for my cousin, Nora Brady. He resumed his narrative. 'The cards now are my only livelihood.
The heroic bishops, O'Brien of Emly, and O'Dwyer of Limerick, exerted themselves to uphold, by religious exhortations, the confidence of the besieged; while Hugh O'Neil and General Purcell maintained the courage of their men.
There were also reporters from the Dublin papers, and a representative Miss O'Dwyer of a syndicate which supplied ladies' journals with accounts of the clothes worn at fashionable functions. The supreme moment of the day arrived when the company assembled to listen to words of wisdom from the orators selected to address them.
The charms of Miss O'Dwyer in these idle days had been too much for the prudence of Mr. Abraham Mollett; by far too much, considering that in his sterner moments his ambition led him to contemplate a match, with a young lady of much higher rank in life. But wine, which "inspires us" and fires us "With courage, love, and joy,"
"'E 'as come back without a shiner." "I'll be bound he has," said Mr. O'Dwyer, sarcastically. "And that when 'e'd only got to go two or three miles further, and hall his troubles would have been over." "Troubles over, would they?" said Fanny, "I wish he'd have the goodness to get over his little troubles in this house, by paying us our bill.
"Twice already General Friend has been on the point of setting Ireland in a blaze once last November, when he had a warrant made out for the arrest of Bishop O'Dwyer, of Limerick; once on March 25th, when he had a detachment of soldiers with machine guns in readiness to raid Liberty Hall. In both cases Mr. Birrell intervened in the nick of time, and decisively vetoed the militarist plans.
She has heard all this, she knows it.... I've never seen her so tiresome before." Mrs. O'Dwyer continued to chide her daughter; but her mother's reasons for not allowing her to go to the ball, though unanswerable, did not seem to console Molly, and she sat looking very miserable. "She has been sitting like that all day," said Mrs.
This was the first time that old Margaret had seemed to understand since she came to live with them what was passing about her, and they all looked at her, Mrs. O'Dwyer and Alec and Molly. They stood waiting for her to speak again, wondering if the old woman's speech was an accident, or if she had recovered her mind.
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