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"Another two minutes and it'll be time to give the signal to Captain Forsyth," said Helmar, feeling over the face of his watch. "Eh? And bring a hornet's nest about us!" exclaimed the Irishman in disgust. "But there, it's military orders, and I suppose they must be obeyed, whatever the consequences."
Amongst all these the Sheikh Burrachee was an exception. He was a genuine crack-brained enthusiast, sane and even shrewd enough in many things, but quite crazy upon certain points. Convinced, to begin with, that it was the duty of every Irishman to hate the English, he had imaginary private wrongs of his own to avenge.
How can the peace and prosperity of Ireland be served by a state of things which condemns an Irishman of such ties and such training to expend his energies and his ability in defending the elementary right of Paddy O'Rourke to take stock and work a ten-acre farm on terms that suit himself and his landlord? In the afternoon we took a delightful walk through the woods, Mr.
Instantly George set his foot on the prostrate man's chest, and cried, "Now your life is at my mercy! What say you?" "If I must die, I must," the Irishman answered doggedly, "but," he added quickly, a sudden thought striking him, "take this first, and see it put into the hands of the person mentioned on it, sir."
And then of a sudden there came to me memories of a young Irishman, with whom I was once intimate, and had spent long nights walking and talking with, upon a very desolate coast in a bleak autumn: I recalled him as a youth of an extraordinary moral simplicity almost vacancy; plastic to any influence, the creature of his admirations: and putting such a youth in fancy into the career of a soldier of fortune, it occurred to me that he would serve my turn as well as Mr.
"There's a great deal of vocality about O'Hara's wires. But, Bess," he added, seriously, "just drop the lamps until we get 'em, and confine your telephoning to your intimate friends. An Irishman on a telephone in political times is apt to be a trifle er artless in his choice of words. If you must talk to one of 'em, remember to put in the lightning plug before you begin."
I even climbed the watershed to the east as far as the O'Hara farm, to sound that big Irishman about the trail. For he had once gone to Kentucky, to come back with his scalp and little besides.
By a common impulse the Genius and his mate ran rapidly away in different directions, leaving the figure alone with the officer. He was a fully-ordained sergeant by name Aloysius O'Grady; a squat, rosy little Irishman.
"Do you mean to tell me, then," said my father, "that there is war declared by England against the Boers?" "No, sor," cried the fellow insolently; "but I tell you that we have declared war again' the brutal Saxon." "We, sir?" said my father gravely. "But you are one of the Queen's servants an Irishman." "Nothing of the sort, sor.
Do you think Shakespeare explained himself to Ann Hathaway? But she doubtless served well enough as artist's model; raw material to be worked up into Imogens and Rosalinds. Enchanting creatures! How you foggy islanders could have begotten Shakespeare! The miracle of miracles. And Sterne! Mais non, an Irishman like Swift, Ça s'explique. Is Sterne read?" "No; he is only a classic." "Barbarians!
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