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"And few are the pennies I can bring to yer riverence when the child has no wages to bring home o' a Saturday. Sorra a hap'orth to spare will I find; it's no me two hands alone can find bread for the mouths o' all, and " "Stuff and nonsense!" interrupted the priest; "there's many another place can be had for a sthrong, likely lass like her.
And what brings you here? says he. 'I'm in want o' work, plaze your riverence, says the waiver. 'Well, suppose I give you work? says the king. 'I'll be proud to sarve you, my lord, says the waiver. 'Very well, says the king. 'You killed three score and tin at one blow, I understan', says the king.
"'Yis, your riverence, if I know meself I am. "'Will you go to the font an' thrink a taste of the holy wather? "'Yes, your riverince, an it's plasin' to ye.
"Then I take it," said Boyd, with a twinkle of the old mirth flickering up into his white and anxious face, "that your honour is not a married man!" "No," said the Fiscal, with a smile. "Then, if I may make so bould, your honour knows nothing about how it is 'twixt Bridget and me. His riverence the Doctor now "
"'An' sure, sir, he did not, an' thin we wint an' pullt Fred out from under the bed, where he'd crawled wid his two legs stickin' out in the moonlight, an' Tam an' messel' wur smilin' quiet like, an' Your Riverence towld us to shut up, an' we wint to bed, sur. "'And how did Tom act? said the doctor. 'Eh, Tom, you young rogue, what are you snickering and giggling at behind Pat's back?
He called me "Father Fitzgerald," and treated me with the utmost politeness and deference. I talked to him about little Mary, and his warm Irish heart opened to me at once. "She is a good child, your riverence, and shame on the father that would hurt or disgrace her!" The tears stood in Mike's eyes as he spoke the words. "All the trouble comes from the whisky. Why not give it up?"
Father McQueen, the dear, riverent gentleman an' may he never die till I kills him, an' may every blessed hair on his head turn into a wax candle to light him to glory! bes comin' back to Chance Along in June. The skipper bain't afeared o' any man in the world but his riverence." John Darling smiled.
"Av we war to hocus it that, yer riverence," said Mrs. Daly, turning to Mr. Townsend, "the crathurs couldn't ate a bit of it; it wouldn't bile at all, at all, not like that." "Try it, woman," said Mr. Carter, when he had uttered his receipt oracularly for the third time. "'Deed, an' I won't," said Mrs.
"Do you take this man to be your lawful husband, and leaving all others, will you cleave unto him alone?" "Indade, your Riverence!" exclaimed Biddy, "I'll be afther claving him all the days of me life!
"You could ax the priest about it," Tim O'Meara said diffidently, out of the melancholy muteness which it was his habit to maintain. "That's as much as to say it should go for Masses," said old Felix, clutching at any shred of definite opinion, "for it's on'y in the nathur of things his Riverence 'ud be recommindin' thim."
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