Garry Owen; Or, The Snow-woman:: And Poor Bob, the Chimney-sweeper, Част 78

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Страница 54 - ... much upon his strength. We had got but a few miles from the village when he drooped, and could not get on ; and I was unwilling and ashamed to turn back, having so little to pay for lodgings. I saw a kind of hut, or shed, by the side of a hill. There was nobody in it. It was empty of every thing but some straw, and a few turf, the remains of a fire. I thought there would be no harm in taking shelter in it for my children and myself for the night. The people never came back to whom it belonged,...
Страница 53 - I set out on my journey on foot, with the three children. The people on the road were very koind and hospitable indeed ; I have nothing to say against the Irish for that; they are more hospitabler a deal than in England, though not always so honest. Stranger as I was, I got on very well till I came to the little village here hard by, where my poor boy that is gone first fell sick of the measles. His sickness, and the ' pot'ecary ' stuff and all, and the lodging and living ran me very low. But I paid...
Страница 5 - One idiot face of white Is over all." Not another snipe was to be seen ; and the gamekeeper, thinking that his young master was fretting inwardly, began to comfort him with a little flattery. " Then, Master Gerald, my dear, when you come to carry the gun your own self, it's a fine sh.ot you'll be, I'll engage — as fine a shot as any in the three counties, as his honour your father (blessings on him !) was afore you. Just such another as yourself, then, I remember him, the first season's shooting...
Страница 95 - That puts me in mind of the miller, his father, riding formerly betwix' two big sacks to the market, himself the biggest sack — Faugh! the son of the likes to be master of Garry Owen!" " They ought not to look so high, them graziers and middlemen, I admit," said the horse-dealer; " the half gentlemen might be content to be half mounted — but when there's the money.

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