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'It was Kate Kearney made the defence; why not give her a commission in the army? make it another "woman's right." 'You are absurd, Mr. Atlee. 'Suppose you endowed her out of the Consolidated Fund? Give her twenty thousand pounds, and I can almost assure you that a very clever fellow I know will marry her. 'A strange reward for good conduct. 'A prize of virtue.
I recollect faring harder than this through one cruise in a flush vessel. We were thirteen weeks up to our knees in water, and living the whole time upon raw pork not being able to light a fire during the cruise." "Pray, Captain Kearney, may I ask where this happened?" "To be sure.
Kearney could not but laugh at the sketch of a debate given with all the mimicry of tone and mock solemnity of an old debater, and the two men now became, by the bond of their geniality, like old acquaintances. 'Ah, Mr. Kearney, I won't say we'd do it better on College Green, but we'd do it more kindly, more courteously, and, above all, we'd be less hypocritical in our inquiries.
Kearney has passed away since the date of which I speak. He was known as the "one-armed Devil," and was, by odds, the best educated of all the Federal military chiefs. But, singularly enough, he departed from all tactics, when hotly afield. His personal energy and courage have given him renown, and he loved to lead forlorn hopes, or head storming-parties, or ride upon desperate adventures.
"That was no credit to her!" said John Kearney, eyeing the mare and her rider gloomily. "'Twas a sweet gallop altogether," said Nancy's former owner, addressing Christian, and ignoring Mr. Kearney's challenge, "and the mare carried you to fortune! But sure it'd be as good for you to take her home now, Miss Christian, she has enough done. The fences from this out aren't too good at all."
That was a gay Christmas at Monterey, despite the barricades in the street. News had come of the defeat of Kearney at San Pasqual, and the Montereños, inflated with hope and pride, gave little thought to the fact that his forces were now joined with Stockton's at San Diego.
The street for which we were now bound took its rise among blowing sands, somewhere in view of the Lone Mountain Cemetery; ran for a term across that rather windy Olympus of Nob Hill, or perhaps just skirted its frontier; passed almost immediately after through a stage of little houses, rather impudently painted, and offering to the eye of the observer this diagnostic peculiarity, that the huge brass plates upon the small and highly coloured doors bore only the first names of ladies Norah or Lily or Florence; traversed China Town, where it was doubtless undermined with opium cellars, and its blocks pierced, after the similitude of rabbit-warrens, with a hundred doors and passages and galleries; enjoyed a glimpse of high publicity at the corner of Kearney; and proceeded, among dives and warehouses, towards the City Front and the region of the water-rats.
I'll step up for them this evening, and I'll be ready to start when you like. 'Here's good fortune to us, whatever we do next, said Kearney, filling both their glasses; and they touched the brims together, and clinked them before they drained them. Kate Kearney's room was on the top of the castle, and 'gave' by a window over the leads of a large square tower.
At all events, whatever you do in life, remember this that if asked your price for anything you have done, name the highest, and take nothing if it's refused you. It's a waiting race, but I never knew it fail in the end. Kearney despatched his message, and sat down to the table, far too much flurried and excited to care for his dinner.
'That cannot be delayed, I suppose? said Kearney, in the tone of a question. 'Certainly not. 'I'll go up by the night-mail. You'll remain where you are, and where I hope you feel you are with a welcome. 'I feel it, sir I feel it more than I can say. And his face was blood-red as he spoke. 'There are scores of things you can do while I am away.
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