So, without waiting to be
announced by the servant, I opened the door, and joined the group
on the veranda.
If I expected to touch the conscience of my friend, the Tramp, by a
dramatic entrance, I failed utterly; for no sooner did he see me,
than he instantly gave vent to a howl of delight, and, falling on
his knees before me, grasped my hand, and turned oratorically to
the ladies.
"Oh, but it's himself--himself that has come as a witness to me
carrakther! Oh, but it's himself that lifted me four wakes ago,
when I was lyin' with a mortal wakeness on the say-coast, and tuk
me to his house. Oh, but it's himself that shupported me over the
faldes, and whin the chills and faver came on me and I shivered wid
the cold, it was himself, God bless him, as sthripped the coat off
his back, and giv it me, sayin', 'Take it, Dinnis, it's shtarved
with the cowld say air ye'll be entoirely.' Ah, but look at him--
will ye, miss! Look at his swate, modist face--a blushin' like
your own, miss. Ah! look at him, will ye? He'll be denyin' of it
in a minit--may the blessin' uv God folly him.
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