[The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain by William Carleton]@TWC D-Link bookThe Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain CHAPTER XIII 10/32
You have done more of that kind of work than you could afford.
No, sir; but if you will send Father James up to my poor wife and daughter that's so ill with this faver--that's all I want." "To be sure he'll go, or rather I'll go myself, for he won't be home till after station.
Did this middleman landlord of yours know that there was fever in your family when he; sent in the bailiffs ?" "To do him justice, sir, he did not; but he knows it since the day before yesterday, and yet he won't take them off unless he gets either the rent or security." "Indeed, and the hard-hearted Turk will have the security;--whisper,--call down tomorrow with a stamp, and I'll put my name on it; and let these men, these keepers, go about their business. My goodness! to think of having two strange fellows night and day in a sick and troubled family! Oh, dear me! one half the world doesn't know how the other lives.
If many of the rich and wealthy, Michael, could witness the scenes that I witness, the sight might probably soften their hearts.
Is this boy your son, Nogher ?" "He is, sir." "I hope you are giving him a good education; and I hope, besides, that he is a good boy.
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