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"Troth, an' you have Misther Purcel, as brave a pair as a man could boast of; but the truth is, you wor so much feflustered wid alarm, and got altogether so much through other, that you didn't know what I said." "I did perfectly: you said distinctly that he had black whiskers."
I felt as he did, but, unwilling to see our noble and faithful dog put to death, I turned aside, expecting to hear the report of the gun, when Pat stepped up. "Shure, Misther Alick, you would not be afther killing the poor baste!" he exclaimed. "Let us trust to Providence as heretofore. We have not been deserted through all our throubles and dangers.
Leonard Madden replied without removing his eyes from the rushing boat, "She has to be. All of Germany's naval plans depend on her destroying us." "It does and, faith, may Oi ask why?" "If we get to Antigua and report this to the British admiralty, how long would this Sargasso reshipping arrangement last?" "Right you are there, Misther Madden," agreed Hogan at once.
Likely he had heard the cocks crowing at your place before daylight, and was making for the sound, only that the light beat him, and he gave it best five minutes too soon." "Ah! we're poor, helpless craythurs, Tammas! But A s'pose A betther see Misther Spanker at wanst?" "No," I replied; "you stay and do what you can. I'll ride back, and see Mr. Spanker.
"Take the boat, is it?" he exclaimed, with a loud guffaw. "Oh no, misther; that won't do at all at all. We shall want the boat for ourselves. And we shall want your help, too, to navigate the brig for us, and we mane to have it, begor'ra!"
"Is it the toothache, Misther Brown?" inquired an eagerly pitiful voice. "Or warse?" Mrs. Kelcey came in, her shawl covering her unbound hair his next-door neighbour and little Norah's mother. Her face was full of astonishment at sight of Brown in his bathgown and the baby in his arms. "I'm mighty glad to see you," Brown assured her. "I don't know what to do with him, poor little fellow.
He no sooner reached the deck than he plunged into the forecastle, from which he presently emerged again, bearing in his hand a packet that I presently recognised as his precious document. He came straight aft to me with it, and said: "Now, misther, I want ye to get a bit of paper and write down the directions that Oi'll read out to ye.
While the carpenter irresolutely quitted the room, with a strong presentiment of ill upon his mind, a light quick step was heard descending the stairs, and before he could call out to prevent it, a man was admitted into the passage. "Is this Misther Wudd's, my pretty miss?" demanded the rough voice of the Irish watchman. "It is", seplied Winifred; "have you brought any tidings of Thames Darrell!"
"Bad luck to ye, then, Misther Sthroddle," cried Mike, from the bottom of the trench, where he was using a pounding instrument with the zeal of a paviour "Bad luck to the likes of ye, say I, Misther Strides. If ye've no relish for a fortification, in a time of war, ye've only to shoulther yer knapsack, and go out into the open counthry, where ye'll have all to yer own satisfaction.
Brown stepped down from the chair on which he had been standing, and stood off with Tom to view the effect. "Yes, that's exactly right," said he, "thanks to your good eye. The room looks pretty well, eh? Quite like having a dinner party." "It's ilegant, Misther Brown, that's what it is," said a voice in the doorway behind them. "Tom bhoy, be afther takin' the chair back to the kitchen for him."
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