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Updated: June 18, 2025
He did his best, that bungling young attorney. He tried to take advantage of technicalities, but Job utterly forbade that. If righteousness and God could not clear him, nothing else could. The defense was lame, but it proved that some people believed in Job and loved him. Tim's father told, between his tears, the story of "Tim's praist." Aunty Perkins and the preacher spoke ringing words for him.
Mary pretended that there was no bible in the house, but he found an old spelling-book upon a shelf in the kitchen, and upon it he made her swear, and called upon me to bear witness to her oath, and that she was now his betrothed, and he would go next day with her to the "praist."
'An' who is he thin? says I, getting up from the bed, 'or where will I find him, or how will I get to him? 'Ye'll not stir a fut for him, thin, the night, Kitty Dolan, says my husband 'are ye mad, says he; 'sure it's not his own head the child has at all at all, or it's a little hiritic he is, says he; 'an' ye won't show the disrespect to the praist in yer own house. 'I'm maining none, says I 'nor more, he isn't a hiritic; but if he was, he's a born angel to you, Michael Dolan, anyhow, says I; 'an' wid the kiss of his lips on my face, wouldn't I do the arrant of my own boy, an' he a dying? by the blessing, an' I will, if twenty men stud between me an' it.
As in the pauses he heard the volume of sound that seemed quivering and swaying among the tree-trunks, like the confined air in an organ, he was awed into silence. "Whist, ye son of Patrick McFadden; don't ye hear the responses all around ye, as if the spirits were in the organ loft, thinkin' ye a praist and thimselves the choir-boys.
"I wad sair like to brak throu the buirds, father?" he said, going again to the laird. "Onything ye like, I tell ye, laddie! I'm growin' curious mysel'," he answered. "I'm feart for makin' ower muckle din, father." "Nae fear, nae fear! I haena a sair heid. The Lord be praist, that's a thing I'm seldom triblet wi'. Gang an' get ye what tools ye want, an' gang at it, an' dinna spare.
'Oh no, mother, says he, 'it's not him at all that I mane it's the gintleman that spakes in the little white church at Carra he's not a praist at all, says he.
"The praist is a strange praist, and almost as black as a nagur; and I'd be a poor body, I think, to let him be meddling wid my work. Shure, I never heard of the like of such interfering in Ireland, nor in the States at all!" Then turning to the Mexican cook, Manuel "You may lave the fire alone till I bees done wid it." "Fray Ignatius will not give you absolution if you disobey him."
It's such a praist, as the likes of yees has no nade of throubling! Yer conscience is aisy, Misther Straddle, so that yer belly is filled, and yer wages is paid. Bad luck o sich religion!" The allusion of Joel related to a practice of Michael's that is deserving of notice.
I've app'inted to myself, many's the time, a consait to tell ye all this, by wor-r-d of mouth; but the likes of yees, and of the Missus, and of Miss Maud there och! isn't she a swate one! and many's the pity, there's no sich tall, handsome jontleman to take her, in the bargain, bad luck to him for staying away; and so God bless ye, all, praist in the bargain, though he's no praist at all; and here's my good wishes said and done."
"Every syllable of it, and a quantity moor that has slipped my memory," answered the Irishman, who was inventing, but who fancied he was committing a very pious fraud "'Twould have done the Missuses heart good to have listened to the majjor, who spoke more in the charackter of a praist, like, than in that of a souldier."
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