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"On account of the rats?" "Rats! What rats?" "The rats that have the island very nearly eaten," said Priscilla. "Sorra the rat ever I saw on Inishbawn, only one that came out in the boat one day along with a sack of yellow meal my da was bringing home from the quay; and I killed it myself with the slap of a loy." "I just thought Peter Walsh was telling me a lie about the rats," said Priscilla.
"True enough, sir; and sure if the Purcels break the law, it is only upon the people, and arn't the people, your worship, as ready to break the law as the Purcels! Sorra warrant, then, I'd grant against Misther John this bout." "And what would you do, Sam?" "I'd bind Hourigan over to keep the pace."
"And what," demanded he, placing his hands upon the shining top of the counter and shoving his head forward inquiringly, "is all this that we do be hearing about your suffragette? Who is she? What is she? The newspapers are filled to the top with her, but sorra the sight of her did I ever see. If she has any existence outside of the comic supplement, gentlemen, I'd like to have ye show me where.
Remember, man alive, that you're among flesh and blood like your own, and that you have friends, although the acquaintance isn't very long, I grant, that wishes you betther than to see you makin' a sweetheart of a tallow-box. What the sorra is that worth?" "A hundred pounds, my darlin' a hundred pounds bravo, Dandy well done, brave Dulcimer wealthy Nancy.
She was obliged to retire hastily to her room because of the arrival of Mr. Watlin. It was some time before Mary Ellen, and The Seraph, and I could make him understand what had happened, though we all tried at once. "And you mean to tell me that he's in there?" he asked, at last, grinning broadly. "Sorra a place else," replied Mary Ellen, "and you're to guard the door till the police comes."
'Begorra, says I, 'it's lucky for ye I'm in the grace, but plase God I'll not be to-morrow; but the spalpeen went to Cork next day, and it wasn't till a year that I run agen him, prepared to do my dooty." "And you did it, I'll be bound!" "Sorra a bit; I just fell in with the divil, being an aisy sort av sowl, and he made me as drunk as a gentleman that's why I'm here, sorr.
"Not without his consent, no nor with it, as the families stand this moment; for I tell you again that the sorra ring ever I'll put on you till your sister sends for my brother, axes his pardon, and makes up with him, as she ought to do.
'Throth, they'll build me up entirely, said Andy to himself; 'an' sorra door to get out or in by, only four walls an' a hole in the middle of the floor. Of all the quare houses that iver I see, this shanty bates them hollow. Masther Robert, calling aloud, 'I wondher have I dug deep enough? 'Come out here, and get dinner, was the response. 'We'll see to-morrow.
And the sorra an ould stick have we left in it that man or mortal 'ud give us the price of a pullet's egg for and small blame to him, unless he was as deminted as herself that's quittin'." Mad Bell's tramp that day was all along a sequence of lonesome winding lanes, where few dwellings were dotted among the green and gold of the fields.
But first friendship is like first love for the sweet taste it puts in the mouth. Niver but once in his life will a man's heart dance to that chune. 'Twas a small slip of a Saxon lad that it danced for then: a son av a cursed agint, that I should say it. But sorra a thought had I for the small boccawn's nationality nor for his own father's trade.
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