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Major O'Dowd wrote off to her sister Glorvina at O'Dowdstown not to hurry from Dublin young Osborne being prematurely engaged already. "Who the deuce asked you to talk about my affairs?" Osborne shouted indignantly. "Why the devil is all the regiment to know that I am going to be married?
And who has not met the Irishman who apes the Englishman, and who forgets his country and tries to forget his accent, or to smother the taste of it, as it were? 'Come, dine with me, my boy, says O'Dowd, of O'Dowdstown: 'you'll FIND US ALL ENGLISH THERE; which he tells you with a brogue as broad as from here to Kingstown Pier. And did you never hear Mrs.
He walked up to a battery with just as much indifference as to a dinner-table; had dined on horse-flesh and turtle with equal relish and appetite; and had an old mother, Mrs. O'Dowd of O'Dowdstown indeed, whom he had never disobeyed but when he ran away and enlisted, and when he persisted in marrying that odious Peggy Malony.
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