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There was an instant of pause, and Frederica breathed the words "'Dicky' shirt-fronts!" to her bewildered cousin. "Himself and the Big Docthor walking the streets of Cluhir like two paycocks!" went on Mrs. Twomey with ever-increasing speed and fury. "Ha! Ha! Didn't I meet him back in Pribawn ere yistherday. 'How great you are in yourself! says I to him.
"I know you are, avourneen, as the bank itself; an' should have what you want wid a heart an' a half, only for the promise I made an my two knees last night, aginst givin' credit to man or woman. Why the dickens didn't you come yistherday?" "Didn't I tell you, woman alive, that it was by accident, an' that I wished to sarve the house, that we came at all.
Our love wasn't of yistherday: afore the links of my hair came to my showldhers I loved him, an' thought of him; an many a time he tould me that I was his first! God knows he was my first, an' he will be my last, let him live or die." "Well, but, Peggy achora," said his sister, "maybe it's sinful to be cryin' this way, an' he not dead."
Several of the scholars rose up simultaneously to speak to him; but the pedagogue angrily inquired why they had left their seats and their business. "Why, sir," said a young Munsterman, with a fine Milesian face "be gorra, sir, I believe if we don't welcome the poor scholar, I think you won't. This is the boy, sir, that Mr. O'Brien came along wid yistherday, an' spoke so well of."
And who in the wide world, captain jewel, id expeck to see you there, meditatin' in the middle of the river, this time o' night; an' I dunna how in the world you got there, at all, at all, for the planking is carried away behind you since yistherday. 'Give an alarm, if you please, Sir, this moment, urged Puddock.
"Saints about us!" exclaimed Mave, rising and looking with alarm into her husband's face "saints about us, Denis, what is it ails you? Sure there would be nothin' wrong wid you about the head, Denis? or maybe it's a touch of a faver you've got, out riddling that corn bare-headed, yistherday?
"In regard to me," she observed, "you may save yourself the throuble o' comin'. I wouldn't marry Phelim, afther what the priest said yistherday, if he had the riches o' the townland we're spakin' in. I never cared for him, nor liked him; an' it was only to plase my father an' mother, that I consinted to be called to him at all. I'll never join myself to the likes of him.
Yistherday it was a gran' opery-cloak, as soon as Artie tould her he had taken four opery sates for the season." The ladies gasped, and Mona clapped her hands at the prospect of unlimited opera, for Anne had always been kind to her in such matters. "But all that's nawthin'," Judy went on demurely, "to what's comin' next week.
I regret to record that I shook my head gravely, and observed: "You've had him a long time, Mr. M'Nab?" "Divil a long. A got him in a swap, as it might be this time yistherday. There's the resate. An' here's the resate the man got when he bought him out o' Hillston poun'. Ye can't go beyant a poun' resate." "Why do you want to get rid of the horse, Mr. M'Nab?"
"There's plenty bad o' the name," was the civil rejoinder. "And my son's in Squire O'Grady's sarvice, sir." "Oh you're the mother of the beauty we call Handy, eh?" "Yis, sir." "Well, he left the sarvice yistherday." "Is it lost the place?" "Yis." "Oh dear! Ah, sir, let me up to the house and spake to his honour, and maybe he'll take back the boy."
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