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This was Dennis O'Moore's: "Hymeneal. Mr. Alfonso St. Vincent and Miss Georgiana Juba's compliments are respectfully offered, and will be happy of Mr. Dennis O'Moore's company on the occasion of the celebration of their nuptials. Luncheon at twelve on the auspicious day, Saturday " "Oh, botheration! It's six weeks hence," said Dennis. "Will we be here, I wonder?" "We'll go if we are."
If I had been unable to imagine what Celia might think, doubtless I wouldn't have bothered about it. But I was bothered. The sensation of botheration deepened and swelled and widened as supper time drew nearer and nearer, and every moment I expected to hear the waiter's voice intoning behind me, "Supper is now ready in the dining-car."
I plucked up courage, made my bow, asked leave, and got it; and the evening found my friend the lieutenant, and myself, after a ride of three hours, during which I, for one, had my bottom sheathing grievously rubbed, and a considerable botheration at crossing the Ferry at Passage, safe in our inn at Cork.
"I'm a bit late, sir, morning." "Late! you were late yesterday evening, weren't you?" "Why, sir, the way the clerks at that Bank of Mortimer and Pennycuick's rush away from business and close the doors after 'em, as if their day began at four p.m., and business was botheration: it's a disgrace to the City o' London.
What was to be thought of it? He would not be undergoing this botheration of the prolonged attempt to bring a stubborn woman to a sense of her duty, if he had declared his marriage in the ordinary style, and given his young countess her legitimate place before the world. What impeded it?
Genestas, on the threshold, looked over the bright spring landscape that lay without, and then at the dark interior of the cottage, where a man was lying in bed. Benassis examined his patient, and suddenly exclaimed, "My good woman, it is no use my coming here unless you carry out my instructions! You have been giving him bread; you want to kill your husband, I suppose? Botheration!
"Whisht!" rejoined the lady: "Don't ye percave that it's not I it's not Judy botheration, Thady how can ye be afther coming where you ain't known?" "Och, Judy, thin ye see if it's not ye'rsel, it's bekase I'm not Thady O'Flannerty that was, sin the wake last night. But it's mighty unnathural if it's not Judy I suspict. And where's the man that ye had, Pat Rooney that was!"
But now I must go and search for my father. Adieu. Miss Puff au revoir." Gildart left the room with a strange sensation of emptiness in his breast. "Why, surely it cannot be that I I am in love with that girl, that stupid, fat but she's not stupid and not fat now. She's graceful and intelligent and pretty absolutely beautiful; why, botheration, I am in love or insane, perhaps both!"
They had no time to waste. One helped her slung Tom across in front of a saddle; and fighting a rear action they gained the block-house without a wound. Tom Higgins was the hero, but Mrs. Pursley was the heroine. Two of his bullets were taken out, and he got well, except for a limp and considerable "botheration" from a third bullet.
You see through me. Anybody could. I can't talk of my botheration without betraying myself. What good am I among you sharp fellows in England?" Language of this kind, by virtue of its unintelligibility, set Mr. Herbert Fellingham's acute speculations at work.
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