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O'Grady, "unless Mrs. Ford manages to drag the grey tweed one away from you." "She'll be furious," said Mrs. Gregg. "She may be as furious as she likes then," said Dr. O'Grady. "She won't be able to show it while the Lord-Lieutenant's wife is shaking hands with her out of the motor-car, and it won't matter to us what she does afterwards.
Liddel for my Secretary, everybody was much surprised at it; and some of my friends represented to me, that he was no man of business, but only a very genteel, pretty young fellow; I assured them, and with truth, that that was the very reason why I chose him; for that I was resolved to do all the business myself, and without even the suspicion of having a minister; which the Lord-lieutenant's Secretary, if he is a man of business, is always supposed, and commonly with reason, to be.
Wilding "but we took you for some friend of the Lord-Lieutenant's." "Are they after you?" quoth Vallancey, his face of a sudden very startled. "Like enough," said Trenchard, "if they have found their horses yet." "Forward, then," Vallancey urged them in excitement, and he picked up his reins again. "You shall hear my news as we ride." "Not so," said Trenchard.
A country dance followed, in which none of the lord-lieutenant's party joined; then there was a consultation, a request, an inspection of the dancers, a message to the orchestra, and the band struck up a waltz; the duchess's daughters flew off to the music, and some more young ladies seemed ready to follow, but, alas! there was a lack of gentlemen acquainted with the new-fashioned dance.
"That will be just what's wanted," said the Major, "to ensure the success of the day. A musical composition of yours, O'Grady, played by our own town band, will be quite likely to distract the Lord-Lieutenant's attention from the fact that here's no statue here for him to unveil." "You won't mind my using your piano, Major," said Dr. O'Grady.
'Chok' it all, wasn't the Lord-Lieutenant's direction, whenever you see Rainbarrow's Beacon burn to the nor'east'ard, or Haggardon to the nor'west'ard, or the actual presence of the enemy on the shore? 'But is he here? 'No doubt o't! The beach light is only just gone down, and Simon heard the guns even better than I. 'Hark, hark! I hear 'em! said Bob.
It's no particular use where it is, and it doesn't seem likely to help you to plunder the public funds." "There will have to be slight alteration in our plans," said Dr. O'Grady, "but I don't see any reason for postponing the unveiling of the statue." "Do you know that the Lord-Lieutenant's not coming?" said Father McCormack. "I had a telegram from his private secretary," said Dr. O'Grady.
'I wish somebody would send us the Standard; when it is known that the Lord-Lieutenant's secretary has turned Fenian, said Kilgobbin, 'won't there be a grand Tory out-cry over the unprincipled Whigs? 'The papers need know nothing whatever of the incident, interposed Curtis anxiously, 'if old Flood is not busy enough to inform them. 'Who is old Flood? asked Walpole.
"You evidently don't understand that I have come here, at the Lord-Lieutenant's express command " "You said that before," said Dr. O'Grady. "To ask for in fact to demand an explanation of " "I should have thought that you'd have offered some sort of explanation to us. After all, we've been rather badly treated and "
The Commons unanimously voted an address suitable to the occasion and in harmony with the Lord-Lieutenant's suggestion. But the Lords procrastinated in debates. It was a question whether their address should or should not include the words "great wisdom" in addition to the word "condescension" to express their sense of his Majesty's action.
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