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"Faix, thin, I will be grateful to him till the end of me days," answered Mike; "and I hope that you will receive, for your throuble in coming, Masther Kakaik, my 'baccy-box, and half-a-dozen red cotton handkerchiefs for your wife and childer, all of them bran-new, except one which I wore as a night-cap when I last had a cowld, and another which has been in use for a matther of a week or so."
"If you have no exact time to depend upon, how do you catch trains?" I asked Mr. Brodigan. "Sure that's not an everyday matter, and why be foostherin' over it? But we do, four times out o' five, ma'am!" "How do you like it that fifth time when you miss it?" "Sure it's no more throuble to you to miss it the wan time than to hurry five times!
She pronounces furthermore, that she "was niver so put upon an' put about in all her life afore as since into this house she come;" that she "will have the law o' me for refusing her her rights." Finally, and most intemperately, that "the Lord will dale with me for grindin' the face of a pore, defenceless young cre'tur' as has had such a pile o' throuble already.
An' he knows right well, yer honor, if he brings you the price of the oats, you wouldn't let him off that way; for the cow should folly the oats, as is nathural; the cabin would be saized next; so Tim ses, if you choose to take the corn yourself, you can do so; well an' good, and save him the throuble of bringin' it to Mohill." "Did the widow Reynolds sell her pig?"
"She might take the little cart and the ould ass along," said Matthew Wogan, looking at his equipage, which was straying towards them intermittently as the beast grazed the green border of the lane. "They're no use to me now. Then there'd be nothin' delayin' her that she couldn't be cleanin' out of it wid them right away You needn't throuble yourself to be liftin' the little stool, Mrs. Massey.
And now I ask ye, Naggeneen, what are ye goin' to do to get us out of the throuble ye've got us into?" "I'm in no throuble meself," Naggeneen answered, "and I dunno what I have to do wid any throuble that you may be in." "You're in no throuble yourself? Haven't ye been as good as livin' on the Sullivans all this time? And now what are ye goin' to do widout them?"
And a heap of throuble that confounded farm has cost me, with one thing and another." "What of it?" retorted the little round faced millionaire, leaning back in his chair and staring fixedly at the other. "That's what I employ you for." "Now, now, gentlemen!" cried Patsy, earnestly. "I'll have no business conversation at the table. You know my rules well enough."
From the moment in which the stout lady had raised her parasol he felt that a battle was imminent; but he had thought it prudent to abstain awhile from the combat himself. He hovered near, however, as personal protection might be needed on behalf of the favourite ornament of his window. "I'll throuble you, if you plaze, sir, to raich me that pelisse," said Mrs. Morony.
Nine roun's they were even matched, an' at the tenth About that palanquin now. There's not the least throuble in the world, or we wud not ha' brought ut here. You will ondherstand that the Queen God bless her! does not reckon for a privit soldier to kape elephints an' palanquins an' sich in barricks.
I think with you that it was wise not to write to Kate about your throuble and disappointment, or apprise her of your intintion, as it would only agonize the poor craytshure; but should you be foiled and taken, what a dreadful thing it would be for her to hear instead of the intelligence of your freedom, that you were in the depths of a dungeon from which you might have no manes of escape for years!"
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