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Cottage Dialogues Among the Irish Peasantry, With Notes and a Preface by M. Edgeworth
Cottage Dialogues Among the Irish Peasantry With Notes and a Preface by M Edgeworth Author:Mary Leadbeater General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1811 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: DIALOGUE V. DECORUM. Rose, Nancy. Rose. Nancy, I hope you won't be affronted with me for telling you,, that you are a good deal remarked for keeping company with Harry Delogher; and indeed he is not a young man fit for an honest girl to keep company with. Nancy. O you are so particular' Harry's such a pleasant boy, and wears his hat on one side of his heal so roguish, and walks with such a genteel air, looking about him, and smiling so coaxingly at every one, that one can't but like him, though he is a little wild, to be sure. Rose. I am afraid he is wicked, s well as wild; for I believe he spends a great deal of his time with Idle women of bad character. Nancy. He is a lad of spirit, not like his mope of a brother, that wears his hat straight on his head, and walks on as if he never thought of any thing but his business, never going out of the path, barring he meets an old body, or a child; but Harry's all life! Rose. I suppose you would not like to be seen with the girls he is so often with? Nancy. Me seen with bad girls! no indeed! nor would I speak to them, or look at the same side of the road they were at. . Rose. Then I think you should not be seen with a companion of their's. Nancy. It's quite a different thing you know; we excuse wildness in a young man. Rose. Now, Nancy, I can't think why the same sin which makes us shun a woman like poison, should be thought so little of in a man. Sin is sin, let who will commit it. Nancy. To be sure it is; but a bad woman is worse than a bad man, Rose. I allow that she is; but who makes women bad? Many of these unfortunate creatures were invei...« less