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'Sivin an' fifty men sittin' on the bank av a canal, laughin' at a poor little squidgereen av an orf'cer that they'd made wade into the slush an' pitch the things out av the boats for their Lord High Mightinesses. That made me orf'cer bhoy woild with indignation. "Soft an' aisy, Sorr," sez I; "you've niver had your draf' in hand since you left cantonmints.
Then Miss Mills benignantly dismissed me, saying, 'Go back to Dora! and I went; and Dora leaned out of the carriage to talk to me, and we talked all the rest of the way; and I rode my gallant grey so close to the wheel that I grazed his near fore leg against it, and 'took the bark off', as his owner told me, 'to the tune of three pun' sivin' which I paid, and thought extremely cheap for so much joy.
"'An' why not? says I. "'For a jail-bird? says he. "'Deed, says I, 'if yer own b'y had been breakin' stones wid a gang of toughs for sivin long years gone, wouldn't ye be after likin' a man to spake wan daycint word wid him? says I. "Wid that Jim turned on quick-like an' says: "'I'll thank ye, Mrs. McCann, to kape yer advice to yerself.
P'raps they're walkin' across to Sivin Oaks, an' are takin' in Briarwood as a 'cross-cut'." "Hush!" whispered the Preceptress. "Isn't that somebody over yonder by the fountain?" They were all three silent, keeping close in the shadow. Some object did seem to be moving in the shadow of the fountain.
It fits the doctor's door, which is very convenient, because you see I do for him, and real hard work it is, for he is a dreadful particular gentleman. But sivin children, and you not the eldest! My word, what is the world coming to?"
All orders were given under penalty of dismissal, and Flannery had so many rules and regulations under his red hair that each day he wondered whether he would still be the Westcote agent at the end of the next. As he read his forehead wrinkled. "'Gineral Order Number Sivin Hundred an' noineteen," he read slowly.
Another pause, and the pencils are pulled from the betting-books. The legs and lords look at each other, but no one likes to lead off. At length a voice is heard offering to take nine to one he names the winner. "It's short odds, doing it cautiously. I'll take eight then," he adds "sivin!" but no one bites. "What will anyone lay about Trick, by Catton?" inquires Jem Bland.
Riley had ilivin relatives at the Sate of War, sivin of her own name, thray Donnigans, and one O'Rourke, a swate boy, though indade only a fosther-brother of her nayce Kathleen McDermott. Mrs.
Thompson. Could you come to me to-morrow, Mrs. O'Callaghan? It will be a day of sweeping and general cleaning," she concluded. The widow's countenance began to brighten. She saw her way out of the difficulty that had been puzzling her. "I can't come mesilf," she answered politely, "for what with my sivin b'ys I've my own work that can't be neglected. But my son, Pat, will do it for you.
"Well, Jim," she said when he stood before her, "it's ashamed of you I am, and that's the truth. A big b'y loike you, noine years old, a-snatchin' something from little Barney and him only sivin! It's my belafe your father niver snatched nothin' from nobody." At this Jim's countenance fell, for, in common with all his brothers, he shared a strong desire to be like his father.
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