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"'Tis a good job ye traded. But even at that thirty-foive moile t'rough th' snow widout webs!" The Irishman looked at him in open admiration. "An' on top av that, killin' th' werwolf wid a knoife, an' choppin' her pack loike so much kindlin's! Green, ye may be an' ignorant. But, frind, ye've done a man's job this day, an' Oi'm pr-roud to know yez."
"Phew! begorra, but Oi nivver thought of that!" he ejaculated in sudden dismay. "Oi'm obliged to ye for the hint, misther. We'll load the guns and muskets, and make ready generally for the blagguards, if they have the impidence to be there."
There was a soft gurgle in her voice as of laughter barely repressed, and she pronounced her i's with a faint broadening of accent, which was altogether quaint and delightful. Sylvia mentally repeated the phrase as it sounded in her ears, "Oi'm like that meself!" and came to an instant conclusion. "Irish! She's Irish. I'm glad of that. I like Irish people."
Whin I first read the paper that speaks of it, it seemed the simplest thing in the worruld to come here and put me fut on it; but now that Oi'm here, and have seen the place, by me sowl I can't see or understand how Oi'm to go about it. And no more can anny of the rest of us. So the long and the short of it is, misther, that you'll have to find the place for us."
An' Oi'm another blank fool to put any money into 'im." "Did ye put much in, Tim?" ventured Mrs. Carroll. "Too much to be thrown away, anyhow." "Thin, why does ye do it, Tim?" "Blanked if Oi know. It's the smooth, slippin' tongue av 'im. He'd talk the tale aff a monkey, so he would." At this moment a loud cry, followed by a stream of oaths in a shrill childish voice, pierced through the singing.
And now that I look at you," he said, "I see that you're not so much a girl as an armful of roses." "Are you by any chance Irish?" said the girl, with a laugh. "Faith and of ahm that," said Aladdin, lapsing into full brogue; "oi'm a hireling sojer, mahm, and no inimy av yours, mahm." "What will you do for me if I help you?" said the girl. "Anything," said Aladdin.
Thanking the lieutenant, we left the wardroom, as may be supposed, decorously enough; but we had no sooner got out on the dock without than Mick executed a wild caper, which made the sentry grin. "Bedad, Tom," he said, loud enough for the marine to hear, "me fayther allers s'id Oi'd be a man afore me moother; an', faith, Oi'm thet now, plaize the pigs!"
Oi don't say Oi'm a good American, for its small Oi feel besides Misther Stirling. But Oi love her, an' if she ever wants the arm, or the blood, or the life, av Dennis Moriarty, she's only got to say so." "Well," said Watts, "this is very interesting, both as a point of view and as oratory; but it isn't business.
"Oi'm thinking o' getting larning." "Thinking o' getting larning!" the miner repeated in astonishment, "why, 'ee be just a dun o' getting larning. 'Ee ha' been at it for the last foive year, lad, and noo thou'st going to be done wi' it and to work in the pit." "Oi'm a going to work in the pit, dad, and oi'm a gwine to get larning too. Oi've made oop my mind, and oi'm gwine to do it."
The old man leaned forward upon his crutch, and with pathetic eagerness scanned the face of the younger man. "Me b'y," he said, "av yer plans is changed wor-rd from th' gir-rl, or what not, that'll be takin' ye back to Noo Yor-rk ye'll take me wid ye? "Oi may be a bit owld, but Oi'm as good as iver Oi wuz.
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