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At the moment of assisted entry his paternal dignity was always at its stateliest, and it was not till he had gravely hung his cocked hat upon an imaginary door-peg in the middle of the hall and seen it flop floorward that he lost his calm. "Blood and 'ouns, ye've the door taken away again."
Quicker than thought, quicker than the lightning's flash, fifty monkish habits disappeared, and fifty knights in splendid armor stood revealed! fifty falchions gleamed in air above the men-at-arms, and brighter, fiercer than them all, flamed Excalibur aloft, and cleaving downward struck the brutal Leonardo's weapon from his grasp! "A Luigi to the rescue! Whoop!" "A Leonardo! 'tare an ouns!"
This was a melancholy situation, and his friends pitied him accordingly. "Don't be cast down, Neal," said they; "your friends feel for you, poor fellow." "Divil carry my frinds," replied Neal; "sure, there's not one o' yez frindly enough to be my inimy. Tare an' ouns! what'll I do? I'm blue-mowlded for want of a batin'!"
"Forty millions o' goolden sovereigns, divil a less." "Thunder an' ouns, but ye startle me!" "An' we're losin' all that" "Save an' deliver us!" "Becase the English takes it" "Holy Virgin undefiled!" "To pay peelers an' sojers" "Bloody end to thim!" "To murther and evict us" "Lord help us!" "An' collect taxes an' rint." "Hell's blazes!"
"What's the matther?" cried the men. "Matther!" roared Jack; "oh, you 'tarnal villains! You're a purty set to carry off a girl for a man a purty job you've made of it!" "Arrah, didn't we bring her to you?" "Her, indeed bring her much good what you brought is to me!" "Tare an' ouns! what's the matther at all? We dunna what you mane!" shouted the men, returning rage for rage.
"Shamus Dempsey," said the figure, looking more angry than ever, "you have not yet gone to London Bridge, although I hear your wife dying out to bid you go. And, remember, this s my third warning." "Why, then, tundher an' ouns, your reverence, just stop and tell me-"
"Oh, tare an' ouns!" says he unto himself, "an' must I sit up all night, and that ould vagabone of a sperit, glory be to God," says he, "serenadin' through the house, an' doin' all sorts iv mischief?" However, there was no gettin' aff, and so he put a bould face on it, an' he went up at nightfall with a bottle of pottieen, and another of holy wather.
"Say no more," says Terence, "that settles the business," says he; "an' oh! blur and ages is it not a quare thing," says he, "for a dacent respictable man," says he, "to be walkin' about the counthry in the shape iv an ould gandher," says he; "and oh, murdher, murdher! is not it often I plucked him," says he, "an' tundher and ouns might not I have ate him," says he; and wid that he fell into a could parspiration, savin' your prisince, an was on the pint iv faintin' wid the bare notions iv it.
"Thunder and ouns! Quit that, will you!" yelled Jean, "and come and answer to your name." Lapoulle rose to his feet with a dazed look on his face, then appeared to grasp the situation and yelled: "Present!" in such stentorian tones that Loubet, pretending to be upset by the concussion, sank to the ground in a sitting posture.
As they were standing in the crowd, their conversation ran partly on Repeal and O'Connell, and partly on matrimony and Anty Lynch, as the lady was usually called by those who knew her best. "Tear and 'ouns Misther Lord Chief Justice!" exclaimed Martin, "and are ye niver going to opin them big doors?"
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