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It is true that when one has driven up the private road, be the same a mere "boreen" or a "shplendid avenue," the bell is found to be broken, the knocker wrenched off, the blinds hauled up awry, and the servants hard to be got at; but the householder is prosperous nevertheless.
Hans Vanderbum sat and gazed at his wife with an admiring eye, as she busied herself with the preparations of the morning meal. Hoping to mollify her, he commenced flattering her, speaking in a low tone as if it were not his wish that she should hear him, but taking good care, at the same time, that nothing should escape her ears. "Shplendid figger, Keewaygooshturkumkankangewock has got.
When I had the big bear walking at me from one direction and the three red gintlemen from the other, I thought to mesilf what a shplendid opportunity there was for the illigant exercise of one's idaas. But it was all the doings of the good Lord above," added Tim very reverently. "Yes; there can be no doubt of that," replied Howard. "He has cared for us all the time."
"She's a shplendid girl; she's a good girl; finest gal I know; and she an' me undershtand one another; twin shouls. We've kep' our secret from you, mother, but the time has come the time has come to reveal the truth. I love Ida. It'sh no good your frowning at me like that; I shay I love Ida."
Such laudations, and a hundred more, the children sang of him to their elders. "Oh," cried one little four-year-old girl, voicing the unanimous feeling of the children, "Mister Peter is just shplendid." So the elders nodded and smiled when they met him, and he was pretty well known to several hundred people whom he knew not. But another year passed, and still no client came.
"'He is a shplendid man, and will make a much bitter husband than the spalpeen that ye now looks on with favor. "'Shall I make him my husband? "'Yis; if ye wish to save yourself from purgatory. If the other man marries yees, he'll murder yees the same night. "'Oh! shrieked the gal, as if she'd go down upon the ground, 'and how shall I save meself? "'By marrying Tom O'Reilly.
An' we're goin' out ash I proposed. Yer a shplendid feller, Abe," continued Kent, with lofty patronage. "A shplendid feller, an' do great credit t' yer 'portunities. But y' haven't had my 'dvantages of mingling constantly in p'lite s'ciety, y'know. Rough diamond, I know, 'nall that short o' shing, but lack polish an' easy grace. So I'll be th' Lord Mayor, an' y'll be th' train. Undershtand?"