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"'Shaugh, my boy, says he, he called me that way for shortness, 'dine with me to-day at Mosey's; a green goose and gooseberries; six to a minute. "'Who have you? says I. "'Tom Keane and the Wallers, a counsellor or two, and one M'Manus, from Dublin. "'The colonel? "'The same, said he. "'I'm there, Darby! said I; 'but mind, you never saw me before. "'What? said he.
"I swear, though there's not a freehold registered on the estate, that they'll vote, every mother's son of them, or devil a stone of the court-house they'll leave standing on another." "And may the Lord look to the returning officer!" said a third, throwing up his eyes. "Mosey's tenantry are droll boys; and like their landlord, more by token, they never pay any rent."
"I am afraid I must try your patience," the doctor acknowledged, "if I am to answer that question plainly." With these prefatory words, he described the events that had followed Mrs. Mosey's appearance at the cottage. "I am only doing justice to this foolish woman," he continued, "when I tell you that she came here, after she had left Miss Emily, and did her best to set matters right.
And, no doubt, the old man was right; for a relic, answering to Mosey's description, was sold by auction in Melbourne, with other assets of the expedition, upon Brahe's return. "They give him a lot o' credit for dyin' in the open," continued the practical little wretch, with masterly handling of expletive "but I want to know what else a feller like him could do, when there was no git out?
In a few minutes more, we were all outside the fence; and the drivers immediately began yoking. I hooked Cleopatra's rein on a wool-lever, and, still riding Bunyip, kept Thompson's and Cooper's bullocks together. Mosey's dog was performing the same office for him and Price. Willoughby had n't returned with the muster; and Bum was still absent.
The conversation once more reverted to the election; and although I was too far from those who seemed best informed on the matter to hear much, I could catch enough to discover that the feeling was a confident one. This was gratifying to me, as I had some scruples about my so long neglecting my uncle's cause. "We have Scariff to a man," said Bodkin. "And Mosey's tenantry," said another.
"There is a certain justice in Mosey's contention," I remarked, addressing Willoughby. "He argues that, as Burke, by dying of hardship, earned himself a statue, so Brown, Jones, and Robinson whose souls, we trust, are in a less torrid climate than their unburied bones should, in bare justice, have similar post-obituary recognition.
Now that she had regained the power to think, she felt a hateful doubt pressed on her by Mrs. Mosey's disclosures. Having taken for granted that there was a foundation in truth for what she herself had heard in her aunt's room, could she reasonably resist the conclusion that there must be a foundation in truth for what Mrs. Mosey had heard, under similar circumstances?
Then whilst Thompson, Mosey, Willoughby and I tailed them toward the tank, Dixon hurried on ahead with his five-gallon oil-drum, in order to replenish it before the water was disturbed; and Price, by Mosey's orders, accompanied him on the same business.
The place where Price's wagon was stuck was not a creek, but merely a narrow belt of treacherous ground. Mosey had n't gone down six inches, but Price had happened on a bad place, and his wagon had found the bottom. All Mosey's team, except the polers, had been hooked on, but with no result beyond the breaking of a well-worn chain.
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