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The slave of love was furnished with money by his soft tyrant, and wandered hither and thither, Coopering, and carpentering, and looking for Gerard. "I can't be worse if I find the vagabone," said he, "and I may be a hantle better."
Go in now, an'," he added in another soliloquy, "may the Lord prosper his virtuous endayvors, the vagabone; although all hope o' that's past, I doubt; for hasn't Skinadre the promise, and Masther Richard the bribe? However, who can tell? -so God prosper the vagabone, I say again."
The click of the cloister door was heard, and Lance awoke from a doze, saying, 'Is that Bill? You've not been here since morning, you vagabone. 'See what I've got for you, said Bill. 'What do you say for that, now? For Lance, with sparkling eyes, was rising to his feet. 'Hurrah! Robin herself!
'You disgustin' little varmint! you dirty vagabone, to stick all thim things in me hand, an' me only goin' to lay a hold on ye gentle-like, to see what sort of an outlandish baste ye was! Look, Masther Robert, what he did to me with a slap of his tail!
You see, I knows all de law words ter do it wid! I des open fire on 'im, an' prove 'im a crim'nal, a law-breaker, a vagabone, a murderer in ev'y degree dey is fus', secon', an' third a reperbate, an' a blot on de face o' de yearth, tell dey ain't a chance lef' fur 'im but ter fall on 'is knees an' plead guilty! "An' when I got 'im down, I got 'im whar I want 'im, an' de work's half did.
"It's a charity it will be," said Nogher, shrewdly availing himself of the commotion he had created, "to stop the vagabone short in the coorse of his villany. He'll surely bring the darlin' young girl off, an' destroy her."
'Why, thin, didn't I know what the vagabone wanted, lavin' the bee 'athout his dinner, an' goin' down this road, afther me lookin' at him this twel'month dressing himself out in all the colours of neckties that ever was in the rainbow, an' saunterin' about the place every Sunday in particler, an' starin' at her purty face as impident as if he was her aqual.
Why did you give a lodgin' to this ould vagabone?" "I tould you the raison," she replied; "but you needn't care about him, for there's not a word of English in his cheek." "Faith, but he may have something in his purse, for all that. Is he ould?" "A poor ould man." "So much the betther; be the livin' I'll try whether he has any ould coins about him.
If I've got my darling back, and none the worse for that vagabone rascal, I know whom I have to thank. Shake hands with me up to the elbows, sir! A Frenchman you may be, but you're one of the right breed, by God! And, by God, sir, you may have anything you care to ask of me, down to Dolly's hand, by God! All this he roared out in a voice surprisingly powerful from so small a person.
Now, Paddy, that's spelling Nebachodnazure by the science of Ventilation; but you'll never go that deep, Paddy." "I want to go out, if you plase, sir." "Is that the way you ax me, you vagabone?" "Yes, that's something dacenter; by the sowl of Newton, that invinted fluxions, if ever you forgot to make a bow again, I'll nog the enthrils out of you wait till the Pass comes in."
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