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"Brannigan's wasn't open when we started." "The principle is just the same," said Miss Rutherford. "Whatever food you have is sure to be refreshingly unusual." The Tortoise lay absolutely becalmed. The ebbing tide carried her slowly past Inishbawn towards the deep passage between the end of the breakwater of boulders and the point on which the lighthouse stands.
"It's beyond me," said Joseph Antony, "what brings you to Inishbawn at all." "The way things are with you at present," said Priscilla, "it wouldn't be a bad thing to have a clergyman staying with you on the island. It would look respectable." "It would, of course," said Joseph Antony.
And besides, he was very likely to get the worst of the encounter. He was out of practise. Prefects do not descend to personalities. "My dear Priscilla," he said, "I only meant that I wouldn't tell you if it was the sort of thing a girl oughtn't to hear." "Like what Jimmy Kinsella has on Inishbawn," said Priscilla.
He had a strong wind behind him and a tide drifting him down towards the island. The water was not cold. He realised that all that was absolutely necessary was to cling to the life buoy, but that he might, if he liked, slightly accelerate his progress by kicking. He kicked hard. Joseph Antony Kinsella wanted no more visitors on Inishbawn.
If Peter Walsh and Joseph Antony Kinsella and Flanagan and Patsy the smith they're all in the game, whatever it is if they determine not to let him land on Inishbawn he won't land there." "But even if they keep him off for a day or two they can't for ever." "Well," said Priscilla, "he can't stay here for ever either.
When the Tortoise had made one circle the rope shook itself clear. Joseph Antony, dipping his oars gently in the water, drew close alongside. "I'd be sorry now," he said, "if it was to Inishbawn you were thinking of going. Herself and the children is away off. I'd have been afraid to leave them there with myself up at the quay with a load of gravel."
"Don't you remember I couldn't get it last night But I did after I went to sleep which was jolly lucky. I hopped up at once and wrote it down. Now we know what Inishbawn will be for Lady Torrington's poor daughter when we get her there.
It was last Friday they came in to Inishbawn looking mighty near as if they'd had enough of it 'Is there any objection, says he, 'to our camping on this island? 'We'll pay you, says the lady, 'anything in reason for the use of the land. My da was terrible sorry for them, for he could see well that they weren't ones that was used to hardship; but he told them that it would be better for them not."
In a minute or two he came back again. "There's Miss Priscilla's boat," he said, "the Blue Wanderer. You're forgetting her." "They'd never venture as far as Inishbawn in her," said Sweeny. "They might then. The wind's east and she'd run out easy enough under the little lug." "They'd have to row back."
"And what's more," said Peter Walsh, "she'll stop him if she's able. For she doesn't want them out on Inishbawn, no more than we do." "Are you sure now that she meant that?" said Sweeny. "I'm as sure as if she said it, and surer." "She's a fine girl, so she is," said Patsy the smith. "Devil the finer you'd see," said one of the loafers, "if you was to search from this to America."
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