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"That's right!" said Mr Meldrum. "In the fear of a greater calamity, I had forgotten the lesser danger! Do you think the roof will bear the pressure on it?" "Sure, sorr," replied the other. "It has borne it all this toime, and the ould house has stood the airthquake; so, there's hopes that it'll last out yit!
Nancy now went into the bar, whither she gave Ned a wink to follow her; and truly was glad of an opportunity of escaping from the presence of the visitor. When there, she ejaculated "May the holy Mother keep and guard us, Ned, but I'm afeard that's no Christian crathur, at all at all! Arrah, Ned, aroon, would he be that ould Square Grame, that Shane Fadh, maybe, angered, by spakin' of him?"
I seen his father and the poor mother looking up to the gallows where he stood, and then she fainted, and she then got sick, and poor ould Brian has nobody now but himself; and all that's on this page." Here poor Raymond shed tears, so completely was he overpowered by the force of his own imaginings. He again proceeded "And the poor white-headed son.
"Awh, give the ould sowl a pinny now," said a sympathetic voice, "'t will bring you luck, more power to you." And Mike Bogan, the tears streaming down his honest cheeks, plunged deep into his pocket and threw the old beggar a broad five-shilling piece. It was a monstrous fortune to Peggy.
"You know the cause of ocean currents, I dare say?" "Niver a taste," said Larry. "It's meself is as innocent about 'em as the babe unborn; an' as for Muggins there, he don't know more about 'em than my ould shoes " "Or your old grandmother," growled Muggins. "Don't be irriverent, ye spalpeen," said Larry. "I ax her reverence's pardon, but I didn't know she wos a priest," said Muggins.
She declared that, ould as she was, she wouldn't think of making herself throublesome to young folks; who, may-be, afther a bit, would a dail sooner have her room than her company: that she had always been misthress, and mostly masther too, in her own house, glory be to God; and that she meant to be so still; and that, poor as the place was, she meant to call it her own.
"Aye, aye, sorr," said Tim as he went off laughing; and I could hear his whispered aside to Adams, who was standing by the deck-house. "Begorra, I'd have betted the ould skipper wouldn't forgit thim blissid pigs av his. He wor thinkin' av thim all the toime that poor beggar wor fallin' from aloft, I belave!"
This, at length, began to make him proud, and to feel that his having given up drink, instead of being simply a duty to himself and his family, was altogether an act of great voluntary virtue on his part. "Few men," he said, "would do it, an' may be, afther all, if I hadn't the ould blood in my veins if I wasn't one of the great Fermanagh Maguires, I would never a' done it."
She pointed a yellow finger at the girl, who stood before her with her head proudly lifted, and her eyes amazed but fearless. 'Look at her, shrieked the beldame, 'all of you, and you, Kate Burke, that boasts your family's the oldest on the Island. Look well at her! Och, the good ould ancient blood! Look at her, for her blood's ancienter still. Do you see anything of Con Daly in her?
Then he took up the bottle and, holding it up to the light, he said with great deliberation: "There will be no more of you whatever!" From that time forth McFarquhar labored with Ould Michael with a patience and a tact that amazed me.
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