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In this instance it may be remembered, that the aid which the poor girl had come to ask from Skinadre was, as she said, 'for the ould couple, who had, indeed, been for a long time past their last meal, a very common thing during such periods, and were consequently without a morsel of food.
He could add no more; but with these words, tottering and frantic, he rushed out of the miser's house. "Wid the help o' God, the young savage is as mad as a March hare," observed Skinadre, coolly; "but, as it's all over wid the unfortunate crature, I don't see why an honest man should lose his own, at any rate."
"Keep away," he exclaimed, "till I settle wid him here now, Skinadre, listen to me you refused my father credit when we wanted it, although you knew we were honest you refused him credit when we were turned out of our place, although you knew the sickness was among us well, you know whether we that wor your friends, an' my father at least the makin' of you" and as he spoke, he accompanied every third word by a shake or two, as a kind of running commentary upon what he said; "ay you did you knew it well, and I could bear all that; but I can't bear you to turn this unfortunate girl out of your place, widout what she wants, and she's sinkin' wid hunger herself.
Their dialogue was not of very long duration. Skinadre, on returning to the scales, weighed two equal portions of oatmeal, for one of which Mave paid him. "I will either come or send for this," she said laying her hand on the one for which she had paid. "If I send any one, I'll give the token I mentioned."
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