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So he could only submit with the best grace possible under the circumstances, and find faint consolation in the thought that the treasure was at least secure. After a brief silence the chief resumed: "It's pained I am, so I am, to trouble a gintleman av fartune, but I'm undher the onplisint naycissichood av subjictin' ye to a further examination.
"Just thin Crook comes up, blue an' white all over where he wasn't red. "'Wather! sez he; 'I'm dead wid drouth! Oh, but it's a gran' day! "He dhrank half a skinful, and the rest he tilts into his chest, an' it fair hissed on the hairy hide av him. He sees the little orf'cer bhoy undher the Sargint. "'Fwhat's yonder? sez he.
The king o' the fairies lives in these hills, I know and his house is undher me this minit, and I on the roof of it I'll never get down again I'll never get down again they'll make me slater to the fairies; and sure enough I remember me, the hill is all covered with flat stones they call fairy slates. Oh! I am ruined God be praised!" Here he blessed himself, and laid his head close to the earth.
"Indeed, sir, I think you ought to know that; I'm ignorant o' what 'ud make a dacent weddin'. We don't intend to get married undher a hedge; we've frinds an both sides, an' of course, we must have them about us, plase Goodness." "Be gorra, sir, it's no wondher I'm fond of her, the darlin'? Bad win to you, Mrs. Doran, how did you come over me at all?"
Put by your things, an' don't, think of goin' out sich a day." "We thank you," replied Owen. "Indeed we're glad to stay undher your roof; for poor things, they're badly able to thravel sich a day these childre." "Musha, ye ate no breakfast, maybe?" Owen and his family were silent.
Howsomever ha, ha, ha Father Soolaghan was one day ridin' past upon his horse, an' seein' the crathur lyin' undher the shed, on a whisp o' straw, he pulls bridle, an' puts the spake on the poor sthranger. So, begad, it came out, that the neighbors were very kind to him, an' used to hand over whatsomever they thought best for him from the back o' the ditch, as well as they could.
"I'm chokin'," said the latter, after a pause; "ask him for wather, Raowl sure he can't deny that, with that purty little sthrame boilin' up undher our noses, as clear as the potteen of Ennishowen." Raoul asked for water, which we all needed. Our throats were as dry as charcoal. The Mexican made a sign to one of the women, who shortly came up with an earthen jar filled with water.
"I would tear it this minute into ribbons," she exclaimed, with eyes of fire and glowing cheeks, "and tramp it undher my feet too; only that I want it to show her, that I may have the advantage over her." There was a sharp, fierce smile of triumph on her features as she spoke; and altogether her face sparkled with singular animation and beauty.
An' 'tis a happiness, an' nothjn' else, so it is, even if I payed double rint wherein, maybe, I'm not a day's journey from that same, manin' the double rint, your honor; only that one would do a great deal for the honor an' glory of livin' undher a raal gintleman an' that's but rason."
"And I suppose if she hadn't been undher the one roof wid us that it's ourselves he'd burn," observed her mother. "Father, tell me the worst at once whatever it may be; how could I guess the villain or villains who destroyed our property?" "Villain, indeed! you may well say so," returned the Bodagh. "That villain is no other than Connor O'Donovan!"
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