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Then it appeared that, though all were bruised, torn, and furious, some were inclined to take a mystical joy in persecution, and to find compensation in certain plain and definite predictions as to the eternal fate in store for 'Jerry Timmins's divils. David, on the other hand, was much more inclined to vent his wrath on his own side than on the Timminsites.
"Divils me darlin'!" called Shon, "are we gluin' our eyes to a chink in the wall, whin the tangle of battle goes on beyand? Bedad, I'll not stand it! Look at them twistin' the neck o' war! Open the gates, open the gates say I, and let us have play with our guns." "Hush! 'Mon Dieu!" interrupted Pierre. "Look! The Tall Master!" None at the Fort had seen the Tall Master since the night before.
But they're divils, miss, is them miners, when they're roused." "Did he fight hard?" "Fight? You should have seed 'im. I never seen anything like it. He was a match fer 'em all, but it was no use. They got turned agin 'im, an' 'ud listen to nothin'." "What did he have to say about the gold being found in his cabin?" asked Mr. Radhurst. "He couldn't explain, sir.
A little before I was inviladed from Burma, me an' four-an'-twenty young wans undher a Lift'nint Brazenose, was ruinin' our dijeshins thryin' to catch dacoits. An' such double-ended divils I niver knew! Tis only a dah an' a Snider that makes a dacoit, Widout thim, he's a paceful cultivator, an' felony for to shoot.
"Why, giv' 'em their liberty, I'm thinking: poor divils, they'll die in the snow, every one av them." I made some poor excuse for cutting short the conversation, and left him, excited beyond anything by the thought which his words gave me.
"If he's innocent," said her father, "you have more pinetration than any girl in Europe; but if he's guilty of such an act against any one connected with you, Una, the guilt of all the divils in hell is no match for his. Well, you have heard all we wanted to say to you, and you needn't stay." "As she herself says," observed John, "perhaps time will place everything in its true light.
Gridley, that manes any kind of a mischief to Miss Myrtle, the Lard bliss her soul an' keep ahl the divils away from her! I'll be runnin' straight down here to tell ye ahl about it, be right sure o' that, Mr. Gridley." "Nothing must happen to Myrtle," he said, "that we can help. If you see anything more that looks wrong, you had better come down here at once and let me know, as you say you will.
"I think if you wor," said M'Kinley, "the light weights and short measures would be comin' acrass your conscience." "No, in troth, Alick, wouldn't they; but may be if you wor, the promise you broke to Sally Mitchell might trouble you a bit: at any rate, I've a prayer, and if I only repated it wanst, I mightn't be afeard of all the divils in hell."
He glared at them from under his tousled hair, then uttered a war-whoop. "Ei-hei-ee, in thaur!" he yelled, "quit yer foolin' an' c'm'an out. Here be the bloody murders, the man-killers, the domned sons uv a landlord. C'm'an out, ye divils." They heard, and they came, from both doors, with bloody faces and blackened eyes, and, seeing the captain and his aids, charged as one man.
"Thin we cheered, an' the cheerin' in the lines was louder than the noise av the poor divils wid the sickness on thim. But not much. "You see, we was a new an' raw rigimint in those days, an' we cud make neither head nor tail av the sickness; an' so we was useless.
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