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"Ay did he; but it's up to Larry Murphy's he's gone, to thry his son in his book-keepin'. Mavrone, but he had time enough to put him well through it afore this, any way." As she spoke, a short thickset man, with black twinkling eyes and ruddy cheeks entered.
"Amin, I pray the blessed Saviour this night! Do you think, Darby, he was a traitor, and done it a purpose?" "Oh, mavrone, oh! if I die widout the priest, what 'ud become o' me, an' all the sins I have to answer?" "I say, was the villain a traitor, do you think?"
"Why we can't hut, what was I goin' to say?" replied his companion; "we can't complain ershi mishi! why, then, God help us, it's we that can complain, Donnel, if there was any use in it; but, mavrone, there isn't; so all I can say is, that we're jist mixed middlin', like the praties in a harvest, or hardly that same, indeed, since this woful change that has come on us."
When he came opposite where the gentleman stood he checked the pig, which instinctively commenced feeding upon the grass by the edge of the road. "Och," said he, wiping his brow with the cuff of his coat, "mavrone orth a muck,* but I'm kilt wit you.
"I loved her as the core of my heart," said the grandmother; "but you spoiled her yourselves, and indulged her too much in dress and everything she wished for. Had you given her less of her own way, and kept her more from dances and merry-makings, it might be better for yourselves and her today; still, I grant you, it was hard to do it for who, mavrone, could refuse her anything?
"The kissing of the toe reminded me of it," said he, as he handed the card to Lucy, who looked at the picture of an Irishman in the act of kissing his sweetheart, Blarney Castle being shown in the distance. Underneath was the following: "With quare sinsashuns and palpitashuns, A kiss I'll venture here, Mavrone; 'Tis swater Blarney, good Father Mahoney, Kissin' the girls than that dirty stone."
Faix, it wouldn't be unlike the same man, to go wherever he can make most money; and sure small blame to him for that; what's one place to him more than another?" "An' where's yourself slippin' out to?" rejoined his wife, with a wink of shrewd humor at the rest. "I say, Frank, are you goin' to look for him too? Mavrone, but that's sinsible!
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