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He was back in camp for breakfast, and despite his lack of sleep he performed his menial duties during the day with more than his usual cheerfulness. "Speed up, can't you?" Slevin paused midway of the steepest slope and spoke impatiently to his partner below. "I'm coming," Black Jack panted. Being the heavier and clumsier of the two, the climb was harder for him.
It was a long time before the sound of his loud, slow breathing ceased. Not until then did Denny Slevin move. With a rattle in his throat the foreman crept out from hiding and went down the mountain-side upon his hands and knees. It occasioned considerable speculation at the Aurora Borealis when neither the superintendent nor the foreman appeared for breakfast.
An'; Bryan," he proceeded, when the latter had returned with the chair and placed him in it, "listen, Bryan when you and Kathleen Cavanagh's married but I needn't say it where was there one of your name to do an unmanly thing in that respect? but when you and Kathleen's married, be to her as your own father was to her that's gone ever and always kind and lovin', an' what your grandfather that's now spaking to you, maybe for the last time, was to her that's long, long an angel in heaven my own Peggy Slevin but it's the Irish sound of it I like Peggy Na Laveen.
Slevin's madly roving gaze flew back and settled upon the discolored visage thrust toward him, then his own eyes widened. He recoiled, crying: "Look here! You don't think I ?" His words ended in a bark. "I ain't said what I think, but I'm thinkin' fast. Nobody knew it but us " "How d'you know?" "I know." Slowly Slevin settled himself.
Having secured the assistance of all the chief tribes of the west, and established the ancient supremacy of his house over Breffni, he first attacked the town of Ballylahen, in Mayo, the seat of the family of de Exeter, slew Slevin de Exeter, the lord de Cogan, and other knights and barons, and plundered the town.
"We'll be disgraced forever," said Phaddhy, "without either a bit of mutton or a bottle of wine for the gintlemen, and that big thief Parrah More Slevin had both." "And I hope," replied Katty, "that you're not so mane as to let any of that faction outdo you in dacency, the nagerly set?
"Wasn't it here, too," he proceeded, "that Peggy Slevin, she that was famed far an' near for her beauty, and that the sweet song was made upon 'Peggy Na Laveen' -ay ay, you may think yourselves fine an' handsome; but, where was there sich a couple as grandfather and Peggy Na Laveen was then?"
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