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"Ay, we do undherstand; the bloddy thieves; divil break his neck that invinted rint, anyhow; sure there's no harm in wishin' that, the villain."
"Sure you'll have Bouncin' Phelim to comfort you. But now that he has shut the door, what hem I'd take it as a piece o' civility if you'd open my eyes a little; I mane hem was it is this doin' him, or how? Are you hem do you undherstand me, Mrs. Doran?" "What is it you want to know, Phelim? I think everything is very plain." "Oh, the divil a plainer, I suppose.
"Well, but what deed is this you have done? and no more of your gesticulations." "Don't you undherstand, sir!" he replied, extending the digit once more in the same direction, and with the same comic significance. "She's safe, sir. Miss Gourlay I have her." "How, you impudent scoundrel, what kind of language is this to apply to Miss Gourlay?"
However, I wish Mr. Malcomson, that you, who do undherstand gardenin', would thry this fellow, because I want to know whether he's an imposthor or not." "Weel," replied Malcomson, "I dinna care if I do. We'll soon find that out. Come wi' me and Maisther Lanigan here, and we'll see what you ken about the sceentific profession."
Oh, Honor, Honor, don't you pity me? don't you pity me? Mother of Heaven, this night? That barradh dim, that barradh dim, put on for our boy, our innocent boy; who can undherstand it, Honor? It's not justice; there's no justice in Heaven, or my son wouldn't be murdhered, slaughtered down in the prime of his life, for no rason!
'Whin ye've been in politics as long as I have, ye'll know, he says, 'that th' roly-boly is th' gr-reatest or-rator on earth, he says. 'Th' American nation in th' Sixth Ward is a fine people, he says. 'They love th' eagle, he says, 'on th' back iv a dollar, he says. 'Well, says Dorgan, 'I can't undherstand it, he says. 'I med as manny as three thousan' speeches, he says.
"No, sir; th' ladies ar-re not to blame. They've always thried to reform man, an' they haven't yet got onto th' fact that maybe he's not worth reformin'. They don't undherstan' why a man shud be allowed to pizen himsilf into th' belief that he amounts to something, but thin they don't undherstand man.
"Thrue for you," says Terence, "but how the divil did you come to the knowledge iv my father's sowl," says he, "bein' in the owld gandher," says he. "If I tould you," says Jer, "you would not undherstand me," says he, "without book-larnin' an' gasthronomy," says he; "so ax me no questions," says he, "an' I'll tell you no lies.
"It is, Barney, achora," replied Nanse; "but there's something wrong wid you." "I wish to goodness, Nanse, you'd let the boy alone," said the cook; "when he chooses to spake, he'll spake to them that can undherstand him." "O, jaminy stars! that's you, I suppose; ha, ha, ha." "Keep silence," said Barney, "and listen.
"An' maybe that's not the only lie you're sure of," replied Jemmy. "It's a subject, any way, you don't undherstand. No," he proceeded, "by all accounts, Charley, it would wring any one's heart to see him taken away in his ould age from his miserable family and childre, and then he's so humble, too, and so resigned to the will an' way o' God. He's lyin' ill in the gaol.
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