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"Out of a man's way," cried Pete, with a roar, and he made a rush for the stairs. Nancy blocked him at the foot of them with both hands on his shoulders. "You'll be quiet, then," she whispered. "You were always a rasonable man, Pete, and she's wonderful wake promise you'll be quiet." "TO be like a mouse," said Pete, and he whipped off his long sea-boots and crept on tiptoe into the room.
"All rasonable, Dinny, Why, thin, black is let me see hut, death alive! it's a a why, it's black, an' that's all I can say about it; yes, faix, I can black is the color of Father Curtis's coat." "An' what color is that, Phadrick?" "Why, it's black, to be sure." "Well, now, what color is white, Phadrick?" "Why, it's a snow-color: for all the world the color of snow." "White is?" "Ay, is it."
"If that's all that's throubling you," replied Denis, trembling, "you may make yourself asy on the head of it; but well I know 'tisn't that that's on your mind; 'tis your own conscience; but sure it's not fair nor rasonable for you to vent your evil thoughts on me!" "Well, he won't," said Anne, "he'll quit it; his mind's throubled; an', dear knows, it's no wondher it should.
Never think of that more in the way of penitence." "In the way of reformation though, I hope, I shall all my life," said Harry. "One comfort I have never been in a passion since." "But, then, a rasonable passion's allowable: I wouldn't give a farthing for a man that couldn't be in a passion on a proper occasion. I'm passionate myself, rasonably passionate, and I like myself the better for it."
I suppose you think I want to keel a you and bury you in the churchyard? And she laughed, and it would not have been a bad laugh for a ghoul. 'Come, my dearest Maud, you are not a such fool to say, if you tell me me go thees a way, I weel go that; and if you say, go that a way, I weel go thees you are rasonable leetle girl come along alons donc we shall av soche agreeable walk weel a you?
"And, you graceful sprig of juvenility, have you the conscience to think that I'd undhertake to fill what you carry on your showlders on the same terms that I'd take for replenishing the head of a rasonable youth? Would you be so unjust in all the principles of correct erudition as to expect that, my worthy Man-mountain?"
"You will then feel," added the priest, "that your drunkenness is prolonging the sufferings of your wife, and that she is as much concerned in your being sober as you are yourself." "I will give in," replied Peter; "I didn't see the thing in that light. No I will give it up; but if I swear against it, you must allow me a rasonable share every day, an' I'll not go beyant it, of coorse.
Full of facetiæ, too, about his looks, which were "rasonable promising," and about the girls of Douglas, who were "neither good nor middling." She was also full of sage counsel, advising marriage with a warm girl having "nice things at her nice lands and pigs and things" as a ready way to square the "bobbery" of thirty years ago at Ballawhaine.
"It's rasonable he is intirely," she said, "and a bright son o' the ould counthree, blessin's on it! It's him who spakes well o' the poor ruined crathers, and praises us all for the natural generous-sowled people we are. He knows us intirely, Norah dear. Shure he's a wonderful man and a bould, let alone the thrue son o' ould Ireland, for doing the beautiful thing.
But I'll tell you how that is, and I'll go slow over these broken stones for I can't go fast: it is where there's no jantleman over these under-agents, as here, they do as they plase; and when they have set the land they get rasonable from the head landlords, to poor cratures at a rack-rent, that they can't live and pay the rent, they say 'Who says?
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