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The stricken lady gave a gasp and raised her head, but "His Majesty" was too nimble for her. By a desperate movement he withdrew from her reach, and stood for a moment at a respectable distance. "Ladies," said he, "it's mesilf that 'ud be the proud man to shtay; but there's no danger in the worruld not the laste in loife, an' this lady requires your care.
It's better to me nor anything else in the worruld, when it wouldn't be a sup o' summat now and thin, if I'd have the rheumatiz." "A sup of what?" "Medicine, dear, medicine that I take whin the doctor says it's good for me. May you niver know the want of it, nor of anything in the wide worruld! and niver know what it is to be poor!"
"Sure it's like goin' in the dark to Bandon Fair, for all the worruld over." "It's not what we like," interposed Mr Meldrum somewhat dryly. "We have got to put up with what we can get." "True for you, sorr," said Mr McCarthy, not to be beaten; "sure, but isn't it best to make the best on it."
His name's O'Toole, that's now in the Carlist camp, an' a divil av a feller he is. He'd sweep Ireland from one ind av it to the other. Give me O'Toole, says I, an' I'll bate the worruld in arrums, says I. Begorra, I would. An' now fill yer glass, me boy." "His Majesty" mixed another tumbler for Russell. "Drink, me lord," said he, "to the fairest av the fair."
She should be the sharer av our heart an' throne. Her lovely brow should be graced by the crown av Spain an' the Injies. She should be surrounded by the homage av the chivalry av Spain. She should fill the most dazzlin' position in all the worruld. She should be the cynosure av r'y'l majistic beauty.
Those seas are breaking over her with frightful force, judging by the amount of surf they send up, and they must soon make an end of her!" "I hope it'll calm down a bit, sir," said Ben Boltrope. "I'm nervous about them timbers for the roof of the house." "Be aisy with you, man," put in Mr McCarthy. "Sure an' all the anxiety in the worruld won't dhrive a pig to market!
L'Épine adjured O'Kimmon in a low voice. "I'm not used to it! 'T would give me me death o' cold!" quavered the Irishman, in sad sincerity, at a grievous loss. "No, by the powers, not English!" exclaimed the Irishman impulsively, seeing he was already discovered. "I'm me own glorious nation! the pride o' the worruld, I was born in the Emerald Isle, the gem o' the say!
"Sure I wouldn't for the worruld be afther hintiu' that ye iver spake anythin' but the truth. Howandiver, I'll tell ye somethin'. Ye see, I was standin' at the dure av yer room last night by the marest accidint, an' I happened to overhear a confabulation between you an' Rivers. An' ye know what ye towld him, and ye know what he said to you.
He waved a hand to Carson as he flashed by, and something in his manner caused Carson to remark to the engineer of the dinky engine: "Somethin's up wid Trevison ag'in, Murph he's got a domned mean look in his eye. I'm the onluckiest son-av-a-gun in the worruld, Murph!
"It's a bad sign his having no fayling there, Haldane," whispered the Irishman to me very low, so that Jackson could not hear. "It's jost what I thought, sure. God may help him, but I can't. He'll niver recover, do what we moight for him, niver in this worruld. The poor misfortunate fellow has his spoine injured, and he can't live forty- eight hours, if as long as that, sure!"
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