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Eyes, hair, that nervous movement of the mouth everything. Old man looked glum enough, though. Poor little woman. I suppose she's past praying for. The old hypocrite will hold her like a dove in the claws of a buzzard hawk till she throws herself away on some Manx omathaun. It's the way with half these pretty creatures they're wasted." Philip's blood was boiling.
Then getting on to all fours like a great boy, and bobbing his head up and down and making deep growls to imitate the terrors of a wild beast, he made little runs and plunges at the child, who jumped and crowed in Nancy's lap and laughed and squealed till she "kinked." "Now, stop, you great omathaun, stop," said Nancy. "It isn't good for the lil one 'deed it isn't."
But the voice of anger, in the half light overhead, broke down suddenly into an inarticulate gurgle. "Why, what's this?" said Pete in a flurry. "You're not crying though, Kate? Whatever am I saying to you, Kitty, woman? Here, here bash me on the head for a blockhead and an omathaun." And Pete was clambering up the wall by the side of the dairy window. "Get down, then," whispered Kate.
Guy heng, did you ever see the like? Hommer the floor, girl higher a piece! higher, then! Whoop, did ye ever see such a nate pair of ankles?" "Hould your dirty tongue, you gobmouthed omathaun!" cried Nancy Joe. She had tried to keep her eyes away, but could not. "My goodness grayshers!" she cried. "Did you ever see the like, though? Screwing like the windmill on the schoolhouse!
Kate had dropped back on the pillow, and was sobbing as if her heart would break, and seeing this, Nancy fell on Pete with loud reproaches, took the man by the shoulders and his dog by the neck, and pushed both out of the room. "Out of it," cried Nancy. "Didn't I tell you to be quiet? You great blethering omathaun, you shall come no more."
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