"Not that at all. Sure, it's a hero's mind ye show when you can find heart to make merry at a time like this!"
"Yes—'he jests at love who never felt a throb.'"
"Then you've a hard heart—and I know I lie when I say it, as Father Mike McCune said to himself when he tuk the oath to King George in '98—if ye're heart never throbbed in Acredale beyant, for there's many a merry one cast down entirely that handsome Jack's gone."
"Come, come, Barney; it's dark, and I can't see the grin that saves this from fulsome blarney."
"Indeed, then—"
"Hark!"
Through the monotonous noises of the night the clanking of steel and the neighing of horses could be heard just ahead.
"We must move cautiously now, Barney. Try to put a curb on your tongue, and let your reflections mature in your busy brain."
"Put me tongue in bonds to keep the peace, as Lawyer Donigan cautioned Biddy Gavan when the doctor said she was driving the parish mad with her prate."
"Sh!—sh!—you noisy brawl; we shall have a platoon of cavalry upon us.
Even the birds have stopped crooning to catch your delicate brogue!"