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It was not so much the discrepancy of the breeching as its respectability that jarred upon me; finally I commented upon it to Croppy. His cap was tilted over the maternal nose, he glanced at me sideways from under its peak. "Sure the other breechin' was broke, and if that owld shkin was to go the lin'th of himself without a breechin' on him he'd break all before him!
Thady; but they got frighted with the quare ways the owld man brought back with him from Carrick. He's wake in the head, they say, Mr.
So the colonel said he saw it was all over wid him. 'But, says he, 'I wouldn't like to go wid you alive, and sure it's all the same to you, alive or dead? 'Oh, that won't do, says his frind; 'I can't wait no more, says he. 'I don't want you to wait, my dear frind, says the colonel; 'all I want is, that you'll be plased to kill me before you take me away. 'With pleasure, says Owld Nick.
"Iss, father." "I want 'ee to come down to the owld shaft with me, an' when I give 'ee the ward cut away as hard as thee legs can spank to Balaswidden, an' fetch the lads that are theere to the owld shaft. They knaw what to do, but tell 'em to make so little noise as they can. Dost a hear, my son?"
That little fella is in tune with all the world!" she declared; "but those people do be always gibbing and gabbing! Give them a smell, and they're that suspeecious they'll do the rest! Sure I said to that owld man below, Mikey Twomey" thus dispassionately was Mrs.
Boys will be boys. And whiles the best o' them will be wild where a bonny lassie is concerned. No that's I'm saying sic a thing anent our young laird. But ye ken he used to be unco fond o' the sport o' deer stalking up by Ben Lone, where this handsome hizzie, Rose Cameron, bides wi' her owld feyther. And I e'en think the young laird, may whiles, hae putten a speak on the lass.
I've got to leave my owld room to-night, and if I cannot git this I must take another that I can get in town," answered the man, who was a rough and uneducated son of the Emerald Isle. "That settles the matter, then," observed Mr. Elder. "You will have to leave," he continued, addressing Mrs. Wentworth. "You will perceive that I cannot lose a tenant through your remaining in the room to-night."
But when the colonel heered it he was more throubled than any, of coorse, and began to conthrive what else he could think iv to keep himself out iv the claws of the owld one.
"Well, what would you think, but he shook his old noddle as much as to say he wouldn't; and so, says I, 'Bad cess to the likes o' that I ever seen, throth if you wor in my counthry it's not that away they'd use you. The curse o' the crows an you, you owld sinner, says I, 'the divil a longer I'll darken your door.
Th' owld Squire would a' been proud to see 'em this bright day! And as for the Lord A'mighty He knows what He's about I tell ye!" and Josey nodded his head with great sagacity "Some folks think He don't but He do!" The Bishop smiled. "Verily I have not found so great a faith no, not in Israel!" he murmured, as presently he rose and strolled away by himself for a while to muse and meditate.
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