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There never was such a chase as we got; and only that they thought there was more of us in it, they might have tuck most of us prisoners. "'Fly, boys! says Grogan as soon as they fired out of the house 'we've been sould, says he, 'but I'll die game, any how, and so he did, poor fellow; for although he and the other four war transported, one of them never sould the pass or stagged.
'The day that traitors sould him and inimies bought him, The day that the red gold and red blood was paid Then the green turned pale and thrembled like the dead leaves in Autumn, And the heart an' hope iv Ireland in the could grave was laid.
'Well, wid that the ould gandher was let into the room agin, an' they all bigined to talk iv sindin' him the nixt mornin' to be sould for roastin' in Tipperary, jist as if it was a thing andoubtingly settled.
Well, Tim Donovan could not settle to sleep at all at all, an' so he kep' discoorsin' the wife about the new cows he bought, an' the stripphers he sould, an' so an for better than an hour, ontil from one thing to another he kem to talk about the pigs, an' the poulthry; and at last, having nothing betther to discoorse about, he begun at his daughter Molly, an' all the heartscald she was to him be raison iv refusin' the men.
After a few moments, Stanton stood back and Miss Burton and Van Berg sang together; then every one leaned forward and listened with a breathless hush. Her voice seemed to pervade his with sould and feeling that had been lacking hitherto.
'Lave aff your palaverin' you snakin' owld sinner, says Sat'n; 'you know you're bought and sould to me, and a purty bargain I have o' you, you owld baste, says he; 'so come along at wanst, and he put out his claw to ketch him; but the colonel tuk a fast hould o' the Bible, and begged hard that he'd let him alone, and wouldn't harm him antil the bit o' candle that was just blinkin' in the socket before him was burned out.
You know how hard the master's new agint is how he sould Paddy Murphy's cow, an' turned him out, bekase he couldn't pay his rint; an' I'm afeard I'll have to sell Black Bess, to prevint his doin' the same wid us." "Well, Owen agra, we mustn't murmur for our disthresses; so do whatever you think right times won't be always as they are now."
It interfered in numberless ways with legislative and executive functions: on one occasion King James consulted the Presbytery of Edinburgh about the raising of a force to suppress a rebellion, and, as late as 1596, he approached the General Assembly with reference to a tax, and promised that "his chamber doors sould be made patent to the meanest minister in Scotland; there sould not be anie meane gentleman in Scotland more subject to the good order and discipline of the Kirk than he would be". Andrew Melville had told him that "there is twa kings and twa kingdomes in Scotland.
"Well, be my sowl," said Darby, who was the first to break the silence that followed these observations; "if you were Lord Cumber himself, instead of his brother, I'd call that same tratement of me as purty a piece of ingratitude as ever came acrass me; me that gave you most of the information that sould them both, I may say an' the letthers too that convicted them, are they forgotten?"
Is that it?" "Well," replied Ainley, half-apologetically, "you can scarcely expect that it sould be otherwise. I suppose that, really, that is why you left England. It would have been impossible for you to resume your old life among the men you knew " "You are the first of them that I have encountered with one exception." "Indeed," asked the other politely, "who was the exception?"
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