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"He woke up an' took his milk," said Patsy in an ecstatic whisper, "an' he knew me! 'Is that you, Patsy, ye ould divil? says he. Sorra a word o' lie in it! An' Shot had twisted himself in unbeknownst to me, an' when he heard the master spakin' he up an' licked his hand." "I've asked Reilly to come on duty now, Patsy. I shall be up to-night, so he has taken a short sleep."
"Oi'm fer doin' it, sorr," broke in Mahoney, "an' Oi'm spakin' fer ivery Irishmon in H troop." "And you, Miles?" "I'm not so bloomin' fond of a fight, Lieutenant," he said, scratching his head, "but I like to stay fighting after I once get started. Ain't that about the size of it, boys?" Several heads nodded, and one fellow growled, "Hell! we kin giv' 'em the same dose a third time."
He not noticing this gave me another whack, which hurt more than all the others, as it was on the part most exposed, and was about to repeat it, when I heard a voice say "Hold fast there, Dan; enough of that. The boy hasn't been on board an hour and you must needs get foul of him." "Who are you that's afther spakin' to me in that way?
"A dhirty man," he was used to say, in the speech of his kind, "goes to Clink for a weakness in the knees, an' is coort-martialled for a pair av socks missin'; but a clane man, such as is an ornament to his service a man whose buttons are gold, whose coat is wax upon him, an' whose 'coutrements are widout a speck that man may, spakin' in reason, do fwhat he likes an' dhrink from day to divil.
If she is sincere enough to spend the summer getting ready to marry John Gilman why that is all right, old girl. We can stand it, can't we?" "Yes," said Katy, "it's one of them infernal nuisances but we can stand it. I'm thinkin', from the looks of John Gilman and his manner of spakin', that it ain't goin' to be but a very short time that he'll be waitin'."
Mrs. Chichester interrupted her: "Margaret!" Peg looked down sullenly and said: "Well, he was." "Haven't I TOLD you never to CONTRADICT me?" "Well, YOU contradict ME all the time." "Stop!" "Well, there's nothin' fair about your conthradictin' ME and ME not being able to " "Will you stop?" "Well, now, aunt, ye will do me a favour if you will stop spakin' about me father the way you do.
"Well, it's I that have got the treasure, Frank; from the day that I first saw her face till the minute we're spakin' in, I never knew her temper to turn always the same sweet word, the same flow of spirits, and the same light laugh; her love an' affection for me an' the childher there couldn't be language found for.
"Why, the object, sir, is to show you that it's not so aisy to know whether a person's young and handsome or not. You, sir, think yourself both; and so did the old skeleton I'm spakin' of." "I see your moral, Dandy," replied his master, laughing; "at all events, make every possible inquiry, but, at the same time, in a quiet way. More depends upon it than you can imagine.
Och, och, if I was only high enough in this world, maybe I wouldn't be spakin' sweet to her; no, no, be my word! thry, indeed, for the likes o' me! Faith, but I know a sartin young man that she does be often spakin' about." Connor's heart was in a state of instant commotion. "An' who who is he who is that sartin young man, Mike?"
A girl and a child future squaws shared the toil of pulling along the family chattels, unaided by the stalwart lords of the creation stalking in front. 'Why, thin, never welcome their impidence, an' to lave the poor women to do all the hard work, an' they marchin' out forenenst 'em like three images, so stiff an' so sthraight, an' never spakin' a word.
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