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"As we got to Molly Hogan's, she told us that ye'd just left the cottage, and it might be the big villain we were hunting might have fallen in wid ye and done ye harm; but if ye didn't see him, it's all right, and we must be joining the rest of the bhoys who ran after him." "Whom do you mean?" asked Mrs Massey.
"Lord save yer honor," returned the trooper gratefully, "and if ye could be sayin' that the LEDDY tould you, it would only be the merest taste of a loi ye'd be tellin', and you'd save me from breakin' me word to the leftenant."
"What are ye telling me?" demanded Josh Owen. "The facts. Ye see, Uncle Josh, I wanted to know whether ye'd forgit ye had my money, an' stray off. So I've been watchin' round, 'thout making no noise, for hours." Josh Owen had no means of knowing whether this statement was the truth or not, but he growled: "Then ye must know for sure, now, lad, that I'm square with my own nephew.
For the matter o' that, ye might take the house for as long as ye want to stay; Dave 'd be glad enough to rent it; and, if the lady knows how to keep house, it wouldn't be no trouble at all, jist for you two. We could let ye have all the victuals ye'd want, cheap, and there's plenty o' wood there, cut, and every thing handy." We looked at each other. We agreed.
Then faint and far-off came a sound like the leisurely firing of big guns, becoming quicker and louder as the ragged arch of the storm crept over the sun and marched down on us with strange twistings and writhings and up-boilings of its tawny mane. "Ye'd best be makin' things ready!" Whinnie called out to me.
"Bless me!" cried Father Taylor, unable to restrain a surprised laugh; but he quickly composed his features. "Aye, indeed, yer reverence, I'd be proud if ye'd let me make ye a present of it," said poor old Mary, trying to straighten her little bent back, and peering at him with anxious eyes.
"'Pears to me, boys," said the ostler, suddenly ranging before them, "ef you're not kalkilatin' on gittin' another party to dig ye out, ye'd better be huntin' fodder and cover instead of road agents. 'Skuse me, gentlemen, but I'm responsible for the hosses, and this ain't no time for circus-ridin'. We're a matter o' six miles from the station in a bee line."
Ye'd tell me not to be ashamed of poverty; but would ye ever put me by the side of her for all your fine feelin's of friendship for them that's beneath ye? Didn't ye show that at the Minettis'?" "But don't you see, Mary " He made an effort to laugh. "I got used to obeying Jessie! I knew her a long time before I knew you." "Ah, Joe!
"Jarge," said he, "I'm thinkin' ye'd better tak' Job back to strike for ye again if you'm goin' to mend t' owd screen." "What d'ye mean?" growled Black George. "Because," continued the old man, gathering a pinch of snuff with great deliberation, "because, Jarge, the young feller as beat ye at the throwin' 'im as was to 'ave worked for ye at 'is own price be dead."
I overheard one say, 'Ah, now, Micky, an' isn't it a pity that Palmer's a Black Protestant, an' that his sowl will blaze in hell for ever, like a tur-rf soddock ye'd pick up in the bog?" "Settle the land question and you settle Home Rule. The bad times made Parnell's success. He was backed by the low prices of produce, and the general depression of agricultural interests.
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