Sequestrin' in the shade--
On her beauty I gazed wid admiraytion,'
No, Pether, you never could; the Mullins is good men--right good men,
but they couldn't do it."
"Barney," said the brother of the bridegroom, "you may thank God that
Pether is going to be married to your sisther to-morrow as you say, or
we'd larn you another lesson--eh, masther? That's the chat too--ha! ha!
ha! To the divil wid sich impedence!"
"Gintlemen," said Finigan, now staggering down towards the parties, "I
am a man of pacific principles, acquainted wid the larned languages,
wid mathematics, wid philosophy, the science of morality according to
Fluxions--I grant you, I'm not college-bred; but, gintlemen, I never
invied the oysther in its shell--for, gintlemen, I'm not ashamed of
it, but I acquired--I absorbed my laming, I may say, upon locomotive
principles."
"Bravo, masther!" said Keenan; "that's what some o' them couldn't say--"
"Upon locomotive principles. I admit Munster, gintlemen--glorious
Kerry!--yes, and I say I am not ashamed of it. I do plead guilty to the
peripatetic system: like a comet I travelled during my juvenile days--as
I may truly assert wid a slight modicum of latitude" (here he lurched
considerably to the one side)--"from star to star, until I was able to
exhibit all their brilliancy united simply, I can safely assert, in my
own humble person.
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