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In that old square of Trinity College, Dublin, one side of which fronts the Park, and in chambers on the ground-floor, an oak door bore the names of 'Kearney and Atlee. Kearney was the son of Lord Kilgobbin; Atlee, his chum, the son of a Presbyterian minister in the north of Ireland, had been four years in the university, but was still in his freshman period, not from any deficiency of scholarlike ability to push on, but that, as the poet of the Seasons lay in bed, because he 'had no motive for rising, Joe Atlee felt that there need be no urgency about taking a degree which, when he had got, he should be sorely puzzled to know what to do with.
There, go, and get some breakfast come back afterwards, and I'll dictate my letter of resignation. Maude has had a letter from Atlee. Shrewd fellow, Atlee done the thing well. As Walpole was near the door, his Excellency said, 'You can have Guatemala, if they have not given it away. It will get you out of Europe, which is the first thing, and with the yellow fever it may do more.
If I could only persuade Maude that I had done an indiscretion, and that I knew it, I should be sure of her friendship. Once make her believe that I have gone clean head over heels into a mésalliance, and our honeymoon here is assured. I wish I had not tormented her about Atlee.
'I said more or less of one, Mr. Atlee, since there are some who have not the courage of their opinions. 'I hope you are gratified by the emendation, whispered Dick; and then added aloud, 'Donogan is not one of these. 'He's a consummate fool, cried Curtis bluntly. 'He thinks the attack of a police-barrack or the capture of a few firelocks will revolutionise Ireland.
'I would rather say, Is my attempt at an explanation sufficiently clear to be intelligible? Atlee looked fixedly at him, and he could do so unobserved, for the other was now occupied in preparing his pipe, without minding the question. Therefore Atlee set himself to study the features before him.
'I have said ten thousand, and I will not say nine nor nine thousand nine hundred. Atlee slowly arose and took his hat. 'I have too much respect for yourself and for your time, M. Kostalergi, to impose any longer on your leisure. I have no need to say that your proposal is totally unacceptable. 'You have not heard it all, sir. The money is but a part of what I insist on.
When, therefore, he heard that from some damage to the machinery the vessel must be detained some days at Syra to refit, Atlee was scarcely sorry that necessity gave him an opportunity to visit Athens.
She will be an old woman by that time, and will have had space enough in the interval to mourn over her rejection of me. I shall be a Minister, not impossibly at some court of the Continent; Atlee, to say the best, an Under-Secretary of State for something, or a Poor-Law or Education Chief.
'I am Spiridion Kostalergi, and by birth a Prince of Delos, said the Greek, waving back the letter. 'I am well aware of that, and it is only in perfect confidence that I venture to recall a past that your Excellency will see I respect, and Atlee spoke with an air of deference.
It bore the date of that morning from Plmnuddm Castle, and was signed 'Atlee. Its contents were these: 'H. E. wants to mark the Kilgobbin defence with some sign of approval. What shall it be? Reply by wire. 'Read that, and tell us what you think of it. 'Joe Atlee at the Viceroy's castle in Wales! cried the other. 'We're going up the ladder hand over head, Mr. Kearney!
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