The Adventures of Barney MahoneyFisher, son, and Jackson, 1832 - 299 páginas |
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... Stapleton might forget his promised visit of the following day . On this subject , however , disappointment did not await him . That gentleman appeared , to repeat his offers of protection , and to receive the ready assent of the ...
... Stapleton might forget his promised visit of the following day . On this subject , however , disappointment did not await him . That gentleman appeared , to repeat his offers of protection , and to receive the ready assent of the ...
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Marianne Nicholson Croker. business was soon concluded . Mr. Stapleton announced his intended departure for England in three days ; merely requiring that Barney should assume his most respectable suit for the journey , and promising to ...
Marianne Nicholson Croker. business was soon concluded . Mr. Stapleton announced his intended departure for England in three days ; merely requiring that Barney should assume his most respectable suit for the journey , and promising to ...
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... Stapleton pro- ceeded to his residence in Finsbury Square , with his protegée . There , his return home was greeted ... Stapleton , being absent on busi- ness relative to the firm of " Stapleton , Goodlad , and Co. , " in which firm he ...
... Stapleton pro- ceeded to his residence in Finsbury Square , with his protegée . There , his return home was greeted ... Stapleton , being absent on busi- ness relative to the firm of " Stapleton , Goodlad , and Co. , " in which firm he ...
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Marianne Nicholson Croker. her parents ; and , when young Stapleton proved his unexceptionable claims to her hand , and succeeded in gaining the first place in her heart , she experienced no shadow of anxiety on the subject of their ...
Marianne Nicholson Croker. her parents ; and , when young Stapleton proved his unexceptionable claims to her hand , and succeeded in gaining the first place in her heart , she experienced no shadow of anxiety on the subject of their ...
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... Stapleton ; and she awaited the period at which they should severally be achieved , as a matter of course , and quite independent of any care or exertion on her part . Fanny had no acquaintance in fashionable life . Novel reading she ...
... Stapleton ; and she awaited the period at which they should severally be achieved , as a matter of course , and quite independent of any care or exertion on her part . Fanny had no acquaintance in fashionable life . Novel reading she ...
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afore afther agh naw appeared Barney Mahoney Barney's Betsey better Blackpool blessin brother called Charles clane coach coorse Cork county Limerick cousin cuzzen Grizzle daughter dear declared dinner doant door dress dry-salter enuff expect eyes Fanny Fanny's father fear feel Finsbury Square girls glad gout Hastings hope iligant issent James Jones Jones's knoes Lady Theodosia Lincolnshire London look ma'am man-servant Margate matter means meself mind Miss Jones Miss Julia Jones Miss Stapleton Miss Temple Misther Misthress Garatty Montague Place morning mother murther Nancy never niver nothin old Barton oney person poor profession rapparee rason replied Screw servant Shoore sister Strathspey Street sure surprized Swaledale tell there's thin thing thought Tom Barton twas what's whin widin wish wonst yees yer honor young youth
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Página 57 - Excise department, he straight resolves on asking the situation for his brother, from Lord Cork — a personage whom he had never seen before ; but who, he was sure, from his title, must be a fellow townsman of his. The interview is in itself a comedy. 'When our adventurer judged that the accident of the ball dress (as related in the last chapter) had sufficiently faded from the recollection of his mistress, he took an opportunity of requesting leave of absence in order to put in force a certain...
Página 66 - Very true, Barney. But how ended your interview ?" ' " Ah ! that's de word shoore enuff, an' not ' retinue,' as I sed awhile agone. Why, ma'am, we had a deal more discourse, an' he axed me a power o' questions, an' I tould him bow I was tuk from home be Mr.
Página 157 - They had not been many days settled in their new abode, before they had noticed and mentioned in the course of conversation, a somewhat remarkable pair, seemingly father and son, who never failed meeting them in their daily walks ; and by a certain air of half consciousness, and more than half inclination, to claim acquaintance, induced the general question, — " 'Who can those two men be ? they know us, I am sure ; and the old man in particular, looks so earnestly at Fanny, that he certainly some...
Página 63 - I tuk heart, sein' he spoke so gentle. " Be this time his mout' was finished, an' de valet began curlin' his hair, givin' us de manes to discoorse moore comfortable." " ' I must hear a little more about you,' ses his lordship, ' before I give you an answer.' " " ' Be all manner o' manes, me Lord Always,' ses I ; ' shoore that's bud fair any way.
Página 161 - You are very good, Sir," Fanny was beginning ; when Mrs. Temple, unable to bear more, exclaimed, " My dear Miss Stapleton, we must hasten home; there is a heavy shower coming on, I am sure." " Bless your heart — no such — no such thing, Ma'am," cried the impenetrable Mr. Barton: but Mrs. Temple persisted in flight, and arrived at home breathless, where throwing herself into a chair, she almost screamed, " Can it be ? Have I actually had such words addressed to me by a smoke dried citizen ! Bless...
Página 60 - Lord ! de vagabond, sweepin' blagguard ! takin' de bread out o' some poor girl of a housemaid's mout', that's wantin' it may be. So just then there comes trow de hall a woman I knoed very well in Cork, by rason of her mother's cousin's sister was a kind of relation to me uncle at Cove's first wife, an' its cook in de family she is ; and, ' Barney Mahoney,' ses she, 'is that you at all at all.' ' " ' Shoore 'tis meself an' none else ;' ses I ;
Página 163 - Then, Ma'am, I— Then, Ma'am, I and Tom — Tom and I — we go into the market, and see if — see if there's — see if there's any think we fancy for dinner ; then we take a stroll ; that's the way we sometimes meets you, Ma'am, and these young ladies, and that fills up till dinner time. Tom ! what's o'clock ?" he inquired, " for my appetite says near three.
Página 62 - tis his teeth he was brushin' ; an" ' Well,' ses he, ' who are you ?' So I tould him my name was Barney Mahoney , a •County Cork man, an' how I'd got a sarvice in London, an' how a brother •o' mine (that's Pathrick you know, ma'am,) not come over yet, was in want of promotion, in regard of a place he'd be gettin" as I hard he might, be a sthroke o' de pen from his lordship, in de Excise. ' "