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"The sorra one o' me seen him," replied Paddy: "I was lookin' at his Reverence, sthrivin' to know what he was sayin'." "Pether, did you?" another inquired. "Me! I never seen a stim of him till he was standin' alone on the flure! Sure, when he didn't see or find himself goin', how could another see him?"
Theresa, child dear, you've ne'er a stim of light to be workin' in, sittin' there in the corner." But Theresa said she had light enough to blind her, and was only winding a skein, and could see better to do that in the dark. So Mrs.
See now, here it is: The night was murthering dark; you could not see a stim." "Not see a a what?" "A stim, bad luck to you; don't you know English? Hand me the hot water. Have you that down yet?" "Yes. Pray proceed." "The Fifth Division was orthered up, bekase they were fighting chaps; the Eighty-eighth was among them; the Rangers Oh, upon my soul, we must drink the Rangers!
"Troth, then, one would think you must a' done so, sure enough, for the sorrow a stim of you I seen anyhow." "O, she's so attentive to her business, your reverence," said Anthony, with bitter irony, "that she sees nothing else. The lord mayor might drive his coach in, and she wouldn't see him. There's an ould proverb goin' that says there's none so blind as thim that won't see.
"Brooks," said he, laying down the letter and pushing the spectacles high on his forehead while he gazed at me, "I want to ask you a question in confidence. Had Mrs. Stimcoe any difficulty in finding this money?" "Well, sir," said I, "I oughtn't perhaps to know it, but she pawned Stim Mr. Stimcoe's Cicero this morning, the six volumes with a shield on the covers, that he got as a prize at Oxford."
'I am taking it very unkind that you should all turn upon me. David Prothero I 'spected 'ould be in a passion, but, stim odds!
"You're bound to wait till the flurry of the win's gone by," said old O'Beirne, for his visitor pointed out into a shrieking whirl, shrilling higher and fiercer. "Sorra a minyit you'll lose, for you couldn't stir a step in that or see a stim. Sit you down a while. What was it set him rovin'?" "Did he say anythin' agin us? Anythin' of bein' thrated bad?"
When she opened it she found some difficulty in recognising her visitor, as the dawn had scarcely done more than dim a few stars far away in the east, which is an ineffective form of illumination. "Whethen, now, Joe Patman, is it yourself?" she said, peeringly. "And what's brought you out at all afore you can see a step or a stim? Is the little girl took worse?"
So the sorra a stim of it, in coorse, could she see; and I done me best biddin' her look at the grand gilt handle, and the wrathe of pink roses on it, and she'd say the same thing after me; but sure its noways very aisy to fall into an admiration of a taypot you've never set eyes on; and I misdoubt the poor lad thought she wasn't so much plased with it as he expected.
She soon recovered, however, and relieved them from the apprehension of her death, which they thought had actually taken place. "Mary," said the husband, "something quare entirely has happened, or you wouldn't be in this state!" "Did any of you see a strange woman lavin' the house, a minute or two before ye came in?" she inquired. "No," they replied, "not a stim of any one did we see."
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