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'And who is Miss Mary O'Brian? But the pamphlet-seller had descried a possible customer, and was gone. 'Mary O'Brian, said a blear-eyed old man, 'is the one that's just come out o' quod. 'Oh, thank you. Then to her sister Vida whispered, 'What is quod? But Mrs. Fox-Moore could only shake her head.
"The general was in hopes," Walter said, "that a diversion might have been caused in the spring, by a rising in Dublin, which would, even if unsuccessful, compel the Dutch general to keep a large force here." "It might have been done, six or eight months ago," Mr. O'Brian said; "but the spirit of the people here has been very much broken, as well as their numbers diminished.
After an experience some of the women had, the moment our committee decided on another demonstration, little Mary O'Brian went out, without consulting anybody, and bought me the whip. "If you will go," she said, "you shan't go unarmed. If we have that sort of cur to deal with, the only thing is to carry a dog-whip." Miss Claxton clenched her hands in their grey cotton gloves.
Quietly as the expedition had been carried out, it was impossible that so large a body of horse should ride through the country unperceived, and a gentleman of county Clare, named O'Brian, thinking that he would gain honour and advantage by reporting their passage to William, set out for the British camp. Being unknown there, he was a long time before he could get access to the king.
"And aren't you going to give me any time to get my trousseau?" said Norah with a dancing light in her eyes that made her look more enchanting than ever. "Sure and I'll be wanting the finest trousseau that ever a princess had." "We'll turn Hôtel Fancy into a palace," said Mr O'Brian. The wedding was celebrated three weeks from this date, as they had agreed.
Fox-Moore detained the pamphlet-seller to point out a painfully thin, eager little figure sitting on the ledge of the plinth and looking down with anxious eyes at the crowd 'is that one of them? 'Oh, yes. I thought everybody knew her. That's Miss Mary O'Brian. She spoke the name with an accent of such protecting tenderness that Vida asked
Norah looked over his shoulder. On the parchment was written the following: WE, KARL HAMMERSTEIN, NORAH O'BRIAN, pledge our solemn oath Christmas Tree, that we will not attempt to visit dwarfland again, or molest the dwarfs in any way, by offering them modern inventions for which they have no use, etc., etc., or by revealing their secret chambers to the glaring light of day.
On Continental hotel-registers the good, honest name of O'Brian often turns queer somersaults, and more than once in "The States" does the kingly prefix of O evolve itself into Van or De, which perhaps is quite proper, seeing they all mean the same thing.
Great was the crime when Cormac Mac Carthy was slain by Tardelvach O'Brian." Who shall say what revelation may have been embodied in these words? Was it in the nature of a confession or an accusation of some hitherto unknown occurrence? Coming as it does at the close of a sacred book, it was doubtless written for some important reason.
He was in these said circumstances when he met accidentally with John Morphew, an old companion of his in Ireland, and soon after, as they were talking together, they fell upon one O'Brian in a footman's garb, also their acquaintance in Ireland. He invited them both to go with him to the camp in Hyde Park, and at a sutler's tent there, treated them with as much as they would drink.
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