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"Lavinia," said he, "you have been straight with me, and, bedad, I'll be so with you? When I first thought of you I was down in the world, and, much as I admired you, I own that your money was an inducement as well as yoursilf. I was so placed that it was impossible for me to think of any woman who had not enough to keep up her own end of the game. Since that time I've done bether.
"D'ye happen to know what's inside av an egg, now, whither it's a chicken, sure, or ownly the yoke an' white, till ye bhrake the shill?" "No," said I laughing. "But, we don't find chickens generally in our eggs at home." "Wait till ye thry one on shipboord," he retorted. "Still, ye can't deny now that ye don't know for sure what's insoide the shill till ye bhrake it, an' say for yoursilf eh?"
"There's two kinds of heretics," said Molly, filling her great tea-cup for the fourth time, and holding the teapot so that the last drop of the strong decoction should trickle into the cup; "Christian heretics and haythen heretics. You're one of the last koind yoursilf, Mike, for you never go nigh a church, except to whitewash the walls of it.
"I wint into the crowd our men was dhrawin' breath behin' the Tyrone who was fightin' like sowls in tormint an' prisintly I came acrost little Frehan, our bugler bhoy, pokin' roun' among the best wid a rifle an' bay'nit. "'Is amusin' yoursilf fwhat you're paid for, ye limb? sez I, catchin' him by the scruff. 'Come out av that an' attind to your duty. I sez; but the bhoy was not pleased.
And the divil a bitter chance any man of us all has of promotion thin yoursilf, Captin: for it'll be mighty strange if our fat Major doesn't git riddlid like a cullinder through and through with the bullits from the Ingians' rifles before we have quite done with this business, and thin you will have the rigimintal majority, Captin; and it may be that one Liftinint Murphy, who is now the sanior of his rank, may come in for the vacant captincy."
Come, Howard, let's jump over this minute!" He made a move toward the stern of the steamer, near which they had been seated, as if he intended to spring overboard, when his arm was sternly caught by the Irishman, who said in an indignant tone: "Kaap cool! kaap cool! don't make a fool of yoursilf. Can ye swim?" "Yes," answered Howard, "we can both swim very well. Can you?"
"Did ye not say just now that I was flesh and blood? sez I. 'I have not changed since, I sez; an' I kep' my arm where ut was. "'Your arms to yoursilf! sez she, an' her eyes sparkild. "'Sure, 'tis only human nature, sez I, an' I kep' my arm where ut was. "'Nature or no nature, sez she, 'you take your arm away or I'll tell Bragin, an' he'll alter the nature av your head.
You've done a long day's work, more for us than yoursilf, as usual; come along and get your supper." Dannie went, and as he was washing at the back door, Jimmy came through the barn, and up the walk. He was fresh, and in fine spirits, and where ever he had been, it was a sure thing that it was nowhere near Casey's. "Where have you been?" asked Mary wonderingly.
So saying, he turned and left the house, followed by a tremendous cheer. "Oh! parbleu! vat shall I do?" said La Roche, with a look of affected despair. "I am most dead for vant of sleep already. C'est impossible to cook pour everybody demain. I vill be sure to fall 'sleep over de fire, prehaps fall into him." "Och, Losh, Losh, when will ye larn to think nothin' o' yoursilf?
He brought in wood and water, and asked if there was anything more he could do. "Sure!" said Mary, in a calm, even voice. "Go to the barn, and shovel manure for Jimmy Malone, and do all the work he shirks, before you do anything for yoursilf." Dannie always had admitted that he did not understand women, but he understood a plain danger signal, and he almost ran from the cabin.
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