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The Black Prophet: A Tale Of Irish Famine

CHAPTER VIII
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I know you will, for heaven an' earth couldn't stand you; an' if I do, it's not me you'll have to blame for it.

Ah, that same step you'll drive me to--I see that." "What will you do, you old viper, that has been like a blister to me my whole life--what will you do ?" "Send you about your business," replied Jemmy, coolly, but with all the plenitude of authority in his manner; "send you from about the place, an' then I'll have a quiet house.

I'll send you to your youngest daughter's or somewhere, or any where, out of this.

So now that you know my determination you had betther keep yourself cool, unless, indeed, you wish to thravel.

Oh, then heaven's above, but you wor a bitther sight to me, an' but it was the unlucky day that ever the divil druv you acrass me!" "Dick," said the father, "as soon as you go into the office, write a discharge, as bad a one, for that old vagabond, as the English language can enable you to do--for by the light of heaven, he shan't sleep another night under this roof." "Shan't I ?--we'll see that, though.


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