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Then, drawing his chair nearer to Philip's, he added, in a half whisper, "I'm getting a bit of a skute into something, though. See yonder? They're calling his father a miser. The man's racking his tenants and starving his land.
The girls used to be putting a glime on him in Dublin they're the queens of the world too, those Dublin girls but never a skute of the eye was he giving to the one of them. I used to think it was work, but maybe it wasn't . . . maybe it was. . . ."
Keep an eye on the girl while I'm away. Take a slieu round now and then, and put a sight on her. She'll not give a skute at the heirs the ould man's telling of; but them young drapers and druggists, they'll plague the life out of the girl. Bate them off, Phil. They're not worth a fudge with their fists. But don't use no violence. Just duck the dandy-divils in the harbour that'll do."
I'll be working like a nigger out yonder, and making my pile, and banking it up, and never seeing nothing but the goold and the girls " "My goodness! What do you say?" "Aw, never fear! I'm a one-woman man, Kate; but loving one is giving me eyes for all. And you'll be waiting for me constant, and never giving a skute of your little eye to them drapers and druggists from Ramsey " "Not one of them?
The old salt seemed to have a "skute" into the bad business which had brought out the Bishop and the lawyer at that late hour, and on parting from me at the gate of Sunny Lodge he said: "Lord-a-massy me, what for hasn't ould Tom Dug a fortune coming to him?" And when I asked him what he would do with a fortune if he had one he answered: "Do?
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