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Cromwell York, who had obtained the unanimous opinions of three eminent corporation counsel upon that very point, smiled tolerantly. "You are not a lawyer, Mr. Dunne?" "No." "Nor am I. But I have had this clause passed upon, and I tell you that we are quite within our rights. The charter covers the case completely, according to the best legal opinion."
Can you go through with a thing? and are you steel to the back-bone? 'I am, said I. 'Then, said he, 'you are a lucky man for he that is talking to you is Michael Dunne, who knows how to make his way out of any jail in Ireland. Saying this, he sprung with great activity from the bed.
Governor Dunne wired that a bill appropriating $100,000 for Ohio flood sufferers had been introduced in the Illinois Legislature, while Governor Osborne telegraphed that the Michigan Assembly had appropriated $20,000.
Quite unused to dissembling his feelings, he took no pains to hide his dislike for Dunne. Casey, on the other hand, was polite, suave, quiet, wearing the mocking smile that invariably exasperated the engineer. "You and Mr. Farwell are not friends," Clyde ventured on the way home. "He doesn't think much of me," Casey admitted. "I rub him the wrong way." "As you were doing to-night." "Was I?"
His clothes were new, excellent in fit and material; but, though he did not wear them awkwardly, one gathered the impression that he was accustomed to easier, more informal garments. His manner was entirely self-confident, and betrayed neither awe nor embarrassment. Which gave York an unfavourable impression to start with. "Take a chair, Mr. Dunne," he said. "I can give you five minutes or ten.
They are all quiet now, those eager, snarling editors of fifty years since, and mostly forgotten. Even the ink which records their spiteful abuse is fading away; "Dunne no more the halter dreads, The torrent of his lies to check, No gallows Cheetham's dreams invades, Nor lours o'er Holt's devoted neck."
He hesitated when he spoke, repeatedly qualifying his statements. His was the awkwardness of the man who, having spent his life in familiar surroundings in some small community, suddenly finds himself in new places among strangers. And, lacking adaptability, is constrained and ill at ease. "You see, Mr. Dunne, it's this way with me," he began.
He changed the subject abruptly. "You and Clyde Burnaby seemed to be getting on swimmingly." "Clyde is that her name?" said Dunne. "Seems like a nice girl." "She's all of that. You know who she is, of course?" "Not a bit. Just her name." "Niece of old Jim Hess, with a fortune of her own." "Pretty lucky," Dunne commented. "Pretty and lucky," said his host.
Donnelly, Surgeon; Capt. Wm. J. Hynes, Assistant Inspector; Lieut.-Col. Sullivan, Aide-de-Camp; Lieut.-Col. Atkinson, Aide-de-Camp; Lieut.-Col. John W. Dunne, Aid-de-Camp; Capt. J. Smolenski, Aide-de-Camp; Capt. J. Driscoll, Aide-de-Camp. "There were three regiments of the Irish Republican Army in line; they numbered fully two thousand men, and were clad in their new uniform.
Though the names of Pilcher, Dunne, Howard Wright, and Rolls testify to the fact that the science of aviation had its followers in England at the beginning of this century, flying came comparatively late, and the real interest of the movement centres round the early efforts of military aviation from 1912 onwards.
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