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"Sufferin' sisters!" says I. "Valentina!" "I beg pardon?" says Mr. Robert. "Say," says I, "help me put a smilin' party on the track of K. W. Mason, will you? Here she is." I expect Mr. Robert would have ducked if he could, after one view of the polka-dot dress and the rusty straw lid; but there was Valentina comin' straight at us.
McFadden, who was sufferin so thurily for Ireland, was of the Mahony wing. I've no doubt that some ekally patriotic member of the Roberts wing was sufferin in the same way over to the Mason-Dory eatin-house. "They say, feller-citizens, soon you will see a Blow struck for Irish liberty!
Her voice carried something Jean did not remember. It thrilled into the icy fixity of his senses. "We'll stay heah," was the response, and it was followed by a clinking step of spurred boot. "Shore I won't stay heah," declared Ellen. "It makes me sick when I think of how Uncle Tad died in there alone helpless sufferin'. The place seems haunted." "Wal, I'll agree that it's tough on y'u.
"Do so, father," said the son, with deep compassion; "God knows but you're sufferin' enough to wear you out." "It is," said Fardorougha, "it is." A silence of some minutes ensued, during which, Connor perceived that the old man, overcome with care and misery, had actually! fallen asleep with his head upon his bosom. This circumstance, though by no means extraordinary, affected him very much.
'I've said dreadful things in my heart an' felt hard an' bitter at times against Almighty God for all the trials an' sufferin' He sent me. When I look at you, I'm ashamed of myself.
"We both doze off, and then when the folks come in in the morning she'll tell what a sufferin' night she's had. She likes to have it said she has to have watchers." "It's strange what a queer streak there is running through the whole of 'em," said Aunt Polly, presently. "It always was so, far back's you can follow 'em.
I didn't let the grass grow under my feet you may be sure, an' before long I stood beside the bed where she was lyin', her poor, pale face all drawn with sufferin'. I've called her a hero for the life she'd led, an' her end was sure enough a hero's end. That afternoon a child had started to run across the street at the corner where Mona's apple-stand was.
He suffered, and I also, for sech is the divine law of love, that if one member of the family suffers, the other members suffer also, specially when the sufferin' member is impatient and voyalent is his distress, and talks loud and angry at them who truly are not to blame. Now I didn't make the springs nor I wuzn't to blame for their bein' discovered in the first place. But Josiah laid it to me.
Do not dissuade me; my mind is fixed, and no power on earth can change it." "Yes, Denis," she replied calmly, "there is a power, and a weak power, too, that will change it; for I will change it. Don't think, Denis, that in arguin' with you, against the feelin's of my own heart, I am doin' it without sufferin'. Oh, no, indeed!
"Wrong, wrong, little gal," he said with a warmth of decision. "When you came to us to me, an' we saw your trouble, we jest set to work to clear a heap o' cobwebs from your mind. That was up to us, because you were sure sufferin', and you needed help. But all we said, all we told you not to believe, those things were sure marked out, an' you, an' all of us had to go thro' with 'em.
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