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"O, never you mind; I b'lieve I know my own business anyhow, an' it's hard, so it is, if a man can't ordher his own boat to sail when he plazes." "O, I was only thinking it quare; and a pity more betoken, as I said before, to lose the beautiful breeze, and "
"Oh, my boys, that's nonsense," said Joe; "either do the job, or let it alone. Av you've a mind to let Captain Ussher walk into your cabins and take any of you off to Carrick, jist as he plazes why you can; but I'm d d if I does! I've had enough of him now; and by the 'tarnal powers, though I swing for it, putting Tim in gaol shall cost him his life!"
'I'm detarmined on it, and I'll set off immediantly, and be a knight arriant. 'A what? says she. 'A knight arriant, woman. 'Lord, be good to me, what's that? says she. 'A knight arriant is a rale gintleman, says he; 'going round the world for sport, with a swoord by his side, takin' whatever he plazes for himself; and that's a knight arriant, says he.
A fiacre crawled round the corner and paused to look on, and the Senator said, "Now which of you three gentlemen is responsible for my ride to Versailles?" The interpreter looked at him with a hostile expression, the guide made a gesture of despair at the volume of tourist traffic, and the man with the shirt cuffs said, "You 'ave took your plazes on ze previous day?"
"My sister, Captain Ussher, has long been left her own misthress to go in and out as she plazes, without lave from father, mother, or brother; better perhaps for her that she had not! God knows I have seldom stopped her wishes, though may be not often able to forward them. If she likes she may go now to Aughermore, but if a brother's love is anything to her, she'll stay this day with me."
"He says he don't understand you." "Thin spake to him yerself, Raowl. Till him we want more banes, and a few more ov thim pancakes, if he plazes." Raoul translated the Irishman's request. "No I is that phwhat ye say, my darlint? Well, iv yez won't go yerself, sind somebody else; it's all the same thing, so yez bring us the ateables." "No entiende" said the man, with the same shake of the head.
"It naded a dale o' contrivance, to be shure," she said to her mother one afternoon, when, Annie being asleep, she ran home to ask after the family, "or I would be well bothered with all her pretty talk o' books, and taching me to read and write; but she, poor darlin', shall say whatever she plazes to me." "An' if she spake ill o' the praste and the holy Church, how then, Annorah?" asked Mrs.
"I wish I hadn't come," she muttered once or twice. The boy Mike sat at the stern. The two girls had nothing whatever to do. "Shall I take an oar, Andy?" said Nora at last. "You, miss?" "I can take a pair of oars and help you," said the girl. "If it plazes you, miss." The man hastily stepped to the back of the boat. Nora took her place, and soon they were going at greater speed than ever.
"So, Mike, you are really going to be a soldier?" "Yes, sor; but faith, Mr. L., I don't see the use of me going to shtop a bullet when sure an' I'm willin' for it to go where it plazes." March 18, 1862. There has been unusual gaiety in this little village the past few days. The ladies from the surrounding plantations went to work to get up a festival to equip the new company.
"Well, Tammas, A'm glad it plazes ye; right glad, so A am; but A thought till till" "Spring it on the public so to speak?" "Yis." "Well, I'll faithfully promise to keep the whole work sacred to your credit. And if ever I go into print which is most unlikely I'll refer to this essay in such a way as to whet public curiosity to a feather edge.
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