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On many a doorstep of the district, that night, nothing else was talked of, and the trio were the most envied men in the neighborhood. Even Mrs. Blackett and Ellen Milligan forgot their grief, and held a joint soirée on their front stoop. "Shure, it's mighty hard for Mrs. Dooley, that she's away!" said one. "She'll be feeling bad when she knows what she's missed."
And when he's got a rose to talk about" her hand made a wide sweep "his own tongue couldn't tell what it might say after it starts. Mr. Milligan will come forward and begin the presidin'." To loud applause Mrs. McDougal took her seat, and Mr. Milligan, in obedience to orders, advanced and bowed, first to Mary Cary, then to Miss Gibbie, and then to the room at large.
James Milligan of Roundtown 1 0 0 "And here I must remark that the people of Roundtown have not been backward in coming forward on this occasion. I have a long list from Roundtown I will read it separate."
Does as Miss Cary tells him. John Armitage. Soap-box politician. Clerk in Mr. Blick's grocery store. Salary eight dollars per week. When it's ten he will marry; told me so. Robertson Grey, Lawyer. Well born and lazy. Patrick Milligan. Whiskey business and good talker. Slippery." She crumpled the paper and threw it at the girl standing in front of her.
The soldiers were in camp, and Milligan thought that Captain Russell ought to be at once notified of the appearance of these Indians. Knowing that we could reach the camp in safety, for we were well mounted, I continued to have considerable amusement at Milligan's expense, who finally said: "Cody, what's making my hat raise up so. I can hardly keep it on my head."
"My boy," he said, "it's all up, and you know it. You'll never see a penny of your ten thousand pounds." "Oh, but I can't help hoping " "Hope as much as you like. How goes the other affair?" "Why, there, too, odd things have been happening. Milligan has just got engaged, and, to tell you the truth, to a girl I shouldn't have thought he'd ever have looked twice at.
"How about Lord Nick?" "Sure, Lord Nick might do anything. But Donnegan ain't Lord Nick." "Not by twenty pounds and three inches." This brought a laugh. And by comparison with the terrible and familiar name of Lord Nick, Donnegan became a smaller danger. Besides, as Milligan said, it was undoubtedly luck. And when he called for volunteers, three or four stepped up at once.
Sample, who was as cool as a cucumber, said to Milligan: "There must be something wrong with your hair. It must be trying to get on end." "It's all very fine for you fellows to stand here and talk," replied Milligan, "but I am not doing justice to my family by remaining. Sample, I think we are a couple of old fools to have come out here, and I never would have done so if it had not been for you."
And though some witnesses allege that their vocabulary is not absolutely destitute of generic names, its extreme poverty in such is unquestionable. Similarly with the Tasmanians. Dr. Milligan says they "had acquired very limited powers of abstraction or generalization.
Milligan we had him over at dinner once made a good deal of money that way, and from what he told me it doesn't seem very different from the business I have been engaged in. Success evidently depends upon one's ability to sell the confiding investor what he thinks he'd like to get. Somehow I fancy that, with moderately good luck, two or three years of it should set us on our feet."
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