Their work had been so idealized for them--it had been endowed with so much meaning--it seemed so different from an ordinary "raising"-- that they lost, momentarily, the consciousness of their own roughness and the homeliness of their surroundings.
"Be gorry!" exclaimed Mike, who was the first to break the silence, "I'd 'a' gi'en a dollar if me owld woman could 'a' heard that.

Divil a bit does she know what I've done for her.

I didn't know mesilf what a purty thing it was whin I built me house.

It's betther nor goin' to the church, bedad." Three cheers were then given to Yates and three to Jim, and, the spell once dissolved, they went noisily back to the cabin and their supper.
That evening Jim was very silent.

When they were about lying down for the night, he took his blankets, reached into the chest, and withdrew something that he found there and immediately hid from sight, and said that he was going to sleep in his house.