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He said he wudn't, an' that's better'n a million dollars to him." "But you think he's going to give them to us when he's through?" She leaned forward anxiously to catch a glimpse of his swarthy face in the dim light, and he did not reply until he had considered it. "If I was sartin! But if, when I'd lef' 'em to the las' minute, if he took it in his head to pull out with 'em!
That was Biddy Brady, that wint to school wid yer mother, an' poor Micksheen was a born ijit, wid a lip hangin' like a sign, so's ye cud hang an auction notice on it. Sure, the poor boy wudn't lave his mother for Vanus herself, an' the mother batin' him out o' the house every day, an' he bawlin' for fear the women wud get hould of him."
"This is the way of it," said Judy, "an' it's aisy to undhershtan' ... thin agin I dinno as it's so aisy ... but annyway she was a sisther in a convent out west, an' widout lave or license they put her out, bekase she wudn't do what the head wan ordhered her to do.
"Yes, hoss; I has a squaw I wudn't swop for two o' his'n. I'll make tracks an' fetch the old 'oman. Shet up yur heads, an' wait, will ye?" So saying, the smoky old sinner shouldered his rifle, and walked off into the woods. I, in common with others, late comers, who were strangers to Rube, began to think that he had an "old 'oman."
"I wudn't doubt ye're worrud for the wurrold. But he wudn't jump a mon divvil a bit quicker than his master, or I'm a sinner!" Trevison's eyes twinkled. "You're a good construction boss, Carson. But I'm glad to see that you're getting more considerate." "Av what?" "Of your men." Trevison glanced back; he had looked once before, out of the tail of his eye.
"Faith, the divil doubt ye, sor," said Macan in reply to this, breaking into a broad grin as he set to work methodically to put the doctor's cabin straight again, while I turned to go below to my proper quarters, with the intention of making myself smart for the forthcoming feast. "Musha, I wudn't loike to be the dish foreninst ye, sor, if ye can ate a hoss, as ye s'id jist now!"
I miss most what I've never had!" "What, for instance?" "Oh, I'll tell ye th' night when we're alone!" We walked around the Tower and ventured once beneath the branches of a big tree. "If we lived here, d'ye know what I'd like t' do?" "No." "Jist take our boots off an' play hide and go seek wudn't it be fun?" I laughed loudly. "Whisht!" she said. "They'll catch us if you make a noise!"
She smiled: she could read him so well. "We must cross the river and find a place over there," she decided. "The construction raft at the trestle will get the horses over. . . . If the Sergeant caught only a glimpse of Whiskers he'd know." Blue Pete laughed. "When I git through with the ole gal her own mother wudn't know her.
'An' there'd be no reward for that man he but went about talkin', said the Kerry man artlessly. 'You speak by your breed, said Dan with a laugh. 'There was never a Kerry man yet that wudn't sell his brother for a pipe o' tobacco an' a pat on the back from a p'liceman. 'Praise God I'm not a bloomin' Orangeman, was the answer. 'No, nor never will be, said Dan. 'They breed MEN in Ulster.
"'Don't palaver, says she, an' she lukt terrible serious. "'My God, Anna, says I, 'ye wudn't be lavin' me alone, says I, 'I can't thole it. "'Yer more strong, says she, 'an' ye'll live till he comes back thin we'll be t'gether." He stopped there. He could go no farther for several minutes. "I hate a maan that gowls, but "
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