"The tip o' the mornin' to ye," says I, "Mrs. Tracle," and thin I
made sich an illigant obaysance that it wud ha quite althegither
bewildered the brain o' ye.
"Wully woo, pully woo, plump in the mud," says the little furrenner
Frinchman, "and sure Mrs. Tracle," says he, that he did, "isn't this
gintleman here jist his reverence Sir Pathrick O'Grandison, Barronitt,
and isn't he althegither and entirely the most particular frind and
acquaintance that I have in the houl world?"
And wid that the widdy, she gits up from the sofy, and makes the
swatest curthchy nor iver was seen; and thin down she sits like an
angel; and thin, by the powers, it was that little spalpeen Mounseer
Maiter-di-dauns that plumped his silf right down by the right side
of her. Och hon! I ixpicted the two eyes o' me wud ha cum'd out of
my head on the spot, I was so dispirate mad! Howiver, "Bait who!" says
I, after awhile. "Is it there ye are, Mounseer Maiter-di-dauns?" and
so down I plumped on the lift side of her leddyship, to be aven with
the willain. Botheration! it wud ha done your heart good to percave
the illigant double wink that I gived her jist thin right in the
face with both eyes.
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