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When softly glide our gondolettes O'er the moonlit sea." Of course, this couldn't continue. This, in short, was rather more than the blood of the Culkinses could stand, so the young man, through whose veins such a powerful lot of that blood courses, sprang to the door, seized the eavesdropping boy, drew him within, and commenced to severely chastise him.
SMITH: Ready. CULKINS: Ready. The blood of the Culkinses is aroused! SECOND: One, Two, Three fire! Culkins's pistol didn't go off. Smith didn't fire. "That was generous in Smith not to fire," said a second. "It was inDADE," said Culkins; "I did not think it of the low-lived scoundrel!" The word was again given. Crack went both pistols simultaneously.
And to add to his discomfiture his coat was covered with a variegated and moist mixture, which he thought must be some of the brains of his opponent, they having spattered against him as he passed the dying man in his flight from the field. A liberal purse was made up for him, and at an early hour yesterday morning the last of the Culkinses went down St. Clair Street on a smart trot.
"Before Culkins answers that," said a smothered voice in the little room, "tell me who yez are." "Friends your seconds!" "Gintlemin, Culkins is here. The last of the Culkinses is under the bed." He was dragged out. "I hope," he said, "the ignoble wretch is not dead, but I call you to witness, gintlemen, that he grossly insulted me." Ed. He was persuaded to retire.
"The honor of the Culkinses," he roared, "is untarnished why the divil won't yez let me go? H ll's blazes, men, will yez be after giving me over to the bailiffs? Docther, Docther!" he shouted, "is he mortally wounded?" The Doctor said he could not tell that he was wounded in the shoulder that a carriage would be sent for and the wounded man taken to his house.
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