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He added in a preacher's tone: For this, O dearly beloved, is the genuine Christine: body and soul and blood and ouns. Slow music, please. Shut your eyes, gents. One moment. A little trouble about those white corpuscles. Silence, all. He peered sideways up and gave a long slow whistle of call, then paused awhile in rapt attention, his even white teeth glistening here and there with gold points.
Quicker than thought, quicker than the lightning's flash, fifty monkish habits disappeared, and fifty knights in splendid armor stood revealed! fifty falchions gleamed in air above the men-at-arms, and brighter, fiercer than them all, flamed Excalibur aloft, and cleaving downward struck the brutal Leonardo's weapon from his grasp! "A Luigi to the rescue! Whoop!" "A Leonardo! 'tare an ouns!"
Arithmetical diversions, in a cold chamber, were the intellectual treat which awaited Margaret and her companions. Arithmetic and slates! With her Colenso in her lap, Margaret Shields grappled for some time with the mysteries of Tare and Tret. "Tare an' 'ouns, I call it," whispered Janey Harman, who had taken, in the holidays, a "course" of Lever's Irish novels.
For the Sheriff was exceeding wroth when he heard that the impudent fellow had attempted my child in the prison, and cried out in a rage, "S'death, and 'ouns, I'll mend thy coaxing!" Whereupon he gave him a sound thrashing with a dog-whip he held in his hand, to make sure that she should be at peace from him. But, alas! the new constable was even worse than the old, as will be shown hereafter.
"'Tut, you fool, says he, for he had that consaited way wid him thinkin' himself cleverer nor any one else 'tut, you fool, says he, 'that's France, says he. "'Tare an ouns, says I, 'do you tell me so? and how do you know it's France it is, Captain dear, says I. "'Bekase this is the Bay o' Bishky we're in now, says he.
"Why, gog's 'ouns, father," exclaimed one of the men, "how does it come that we find you here?" "Very simply, John," replied his father for such he was "I took this cottage, and the bit of land that goes with it, from honest Andy Morrow, and we are not many hours in it.
"Tare an' 'ouns, he's at it ag'in!" cried the boatswain when he was able to speak; "he's at it ag'in!" "Aye, he's at it again. A rum chap, ain't he?" said Mr Saunders.
"'Tare an ouns, says I, 'do you tell me so? and how do you know it's France it is, Captain dear? says I. "'Bekase this is the Bay o' Bishky we're in now, says he. "'Throth, I was thinkin' so myself, says I, 'by the rowl it has; for I often heerd av it in regard of that same; and, throth, the likes av it I never seen before nor since, and, with the help of God, never will.
In another place he commits the bald absurdity of putting the phrase "tare an ouns" into an Italian's mouth. In Rome he unhesitatingly believes the legend that St.
'Oh, tare an ouns, says he unto himself, 'an' must I sit up all night, and that ould vagabond of a sperit, glory be to God, says he, 'serenading through the house, an' doin' all sorts iv mischief. However, there was no gettin' aff, and so he put a bould face on it, an' he went up at nightfall with a bottle of pottieen, and another of holy wather.
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