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She took a candle, and with a mincing, mocking movement, curtseying low at every step, she backed before me, and then stood waiting at the foot of the staircase with a drunken look of satire on her features. 'Pray go upstairs fust, gentleman, said she; 'I can't think o' goin' up fust, an' lettin' my darter's kind wisiter foller behind like a sarvint.
Zoo wi'out any mwore ham-chammy we ageën raise our cyder cups to ee, wi' th' pious pray'r on our lips that Heaven ull prosper ee, an' we assure ee that Darset Men ull ever sheen as oone o' th' bright jools in yer Crown. I d' bide, az avoretime, an' vor all time, Thy Vaithful Sarvint,
'Every helmet has a spike stickin' out o' the top of it, says the waiver; 'and if mine has three, it's only the grandher it is. 'Well, says the wife, getting bitther at last, 'all I can say is, it isn't the first sheep's head was dhress'd in it. 'Your sarvint, ma'am, says he; and off he set.
"You are not in earnest, Tim?" "As sure as the Gospels, your honor I've served five years in the Cork Militia, and wore the badge as a marksman; and so I mean to 'list, and go as your honors' sarvint." "But you can't do that, Tim, even if we would let you," Ralph laughed. "There won't be any servants at all." "Sure, your honor is mistaken, entirely," Tim said, gravely.
If you want a sarvint I'll hire; for, as I said a while ago, I want a place, an' except wid you I don't know where to get one." "If you come to me," observed the other, "you must go to your duty, an' observe the fast days, but not the holydays." "Sarvints isn't obliged to obsarve them," replied Bartle. "But I always put it in the bargain," returned the other.
Well, ye may aisily think they had plinty to talk about, afther seven years without once seein' one another; and so signs on, the time flew by as swift an' as pleasant as a bird on the wing, an' the sun wint down, an' the moon shone sweet an' soft instead, an' they two never knew a ha'porth about it, but kept talkin' an' whisperin', an' whisperin' an' talkin'; for it's wondherful how often a tinder-hearted girl will bear to hear a purty boy tellin' her the same story constant over an' over; ontil at last, sure enough, they heerd the ould man himself comin' up the boreen, singin' the 'Colleen Rue' a thing he never done barrin' whin he had a dhrop in; an' the misthress walkin' in front iv him, an' two illigant Kerry cows he just bought in the fair, an' the sarvint boys dhriving them behind.
I know I wandered through the archipelago looking for you, because I did not believe at first that you were dead. It was at this time I took up my abode in the cave of Rakata, and fell in with my good faithful friend Moses." "Your sarvint, massa," interrupted the negro humbly. "I's proud to be call your frind, but I's only your sarvint, massa."
"Well, you'll 'scuse me, sar," returned the negro with an air of profound humility, "but my massa lost a old sarvint a nigger like myself only last munt', an' he wants to go on one ob his usual expeditions jus' now, so he sends me to Batavia to git anoder man 'a good one, you know, says massa, an' as you, sar, was good 'nuff to ax me what you should do, an' you looked a pritty smart man, I "
"What, Biddy? let us hear it." "Why, that you could be mane an' shabby! enough to come as a sarvint to ate the bread of the man that ruined yees!" "Biddy," replied Flanagan, "I'm glad! you've said it; but do you think that I have so bad a heart as too keep revinge in against an inimy? How could I go to my knees at night, if I no, Biddy, we must be Christians.
'Now, Sheemus O'Shaughran, says I, 'you've said what I know to be a lie. I'm not the man to put ill between you and his honor, Mr. M'Clutchy, but at the same time, says I, 'I'm his sarvint, and as an honest man I must do my duty.
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