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'Hoot! was there ever sic a laddie! said Betty, attempting to laugh it off. 'Be sure ye be back afore tay-time, 'cause yer grannie 'ill be speirin' efter ye, and ye wadna hae me lee aboot ye? 'I wad hae naebody lee about me. Ye jist needna lat on 'at ye hear her. Ye can be deif eneuch when ye like, Betty. But I s' be back afore tay-time, or come on the waur.
'Well, returned the old woman, clicking her needles with added rapidity, 'I've always said there's no end to the folly o' men. D'ye hear that there cuckoo? Go and catch him wi' shoutin' at him. An' when next you're in want of toast at tay-time, soak your bread in a pan o' cold water.
"What's that you're saying about his reverence, Mrs. Cassidy?" cried Father Dan from the upper landing. "I'm saying you're destroying yourself with your fasting and praying and your midnight calls at mountain cabins, and never a ha'porth of anything in your stomach to do it on." "Whisht then, Mrs. Cassidy, it's tay-time, isn't it?
O'Dowd's letter, when the door was flung open, and a stout jolly lady, in a riding-habit, followed by a couple of officers of Ours, entered the room. "Sure, I couldn't stop till tay-time. Present me, Garge, my dear fellow, to your lady.
"It's high time, in me own belafe, for her husband to come ashkin' and inquirin' her close all in a hape on the floor upstairs, with her bath-dress gone from the nails, and the front door swingin', me never findin' of it out till it cooms tay-time, with all the children cryin' on me, and me head shplit with the noise, and " Dr. Sharpe strode in a bewildered way to the front door.
"Enough's good as a feast," returned his hostess sententiously. "It'll be tay-time afore aught's long." "Mun I bide for tay?" inquired Ted, with his head on one side. "Ye can if ye've a mind," said Margaret, accommodatingly. "Ye can be lookin' round if ye like while I'm gettin' things ready."
'I'm mindin' it, returned Ichabod. 'It's a part o' my business to keep thee out o' mischief. 'Ah! piped Master Richard, 'you needn't mind that part of your business to-night. 'All right, said Ichabod, reshouldering the sack he had meanwhile balanced on the coping of the bridge. 'See as thee beesn't late for tay-time.
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