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Two miles farther on we came upon fourteen carts of gipsies, as wild a crew as one could meet all the world over. Some of the men struck me as handsome, but with a single exception the women were terribly unkempt-looking creatures. It was fully six o'clock before we reached Oravicza; the drive of twenty-five miles had taken eight hours instead of four, as the Wallack had profanely promised.
"Come along, O'Reilly," he said. "Fetch the woman, and give no more heed to swine-dogs!" His hand slipped up the rail to the first floor, vanished. If O'Reilly followed with the woman mentioned, both kept back from the rail and so out of Lanyard's field of vision. The group at the foot of the stairs moved away, grumbling profanely.
All the rogues of the fine sphere ran about with it, male and female; and there was the narrative that suggestively skipped, and that which trod the minuet measure, dropping a curtsey to ravenous curiosity; the apology surrendering its defensible cause in supplications to benevolence; and the benevolence damnatory in a too eloquent urgency; followed by the devout objection to a breath of the subject, so blackening it as to call forth the profanely circumstantial exposition.
At fifteen minutes to the hour she blew two shorter toots, and just on the eve of departure three blasts loud and sharp. This final warning, which Doctor Blair had profanely named the last trump, had been sounded, and Roderick began to look anxious for she had not yet appeared nor Mrs. Adams either. But he had gone sailing on picnics via the Inverness too many times to be seriously alarmed.
"I tell you," insisted Philippi profanely, "there are no rooms for you to sleep in up-stairs." "And I," retorted Lefever, "tell you there are. Anyway, I left a sewing-machine up-stairs here three years ago, and promised to keep it oiled for the lady. This is a good time to begin."
Taine, with the last strength of his evil life, profanely cursed the woman that his gold had bought to serve his licentious will and cursing died; Aaron King inspired by the character and purity of the woman he loved, and by whom he knew he was loved, and dreaming of their comradeship that was to be dedicated himself anew to the ministry of his art and so entered into that more abundant life which belongs by divine right to all who will claim it.
With him also, I say it not profanely, one day is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day. This account of his occupation increased the interest his look had excited in me, and I have observed him more particularly and found out more about him.
When he came near she shrank back against the wall; when he spoke she cringed; when he attempted to touch her person she screamed. It was this act that brought Sam's wrath upon Davy's head. He won something like gratitude from the girl by profanely commanding Davy to confine his love to looks and not to acts. "She ain't to be harmed," was Sam's edict. "That goes, too."
The Swede slumped in one seat, with our dunnage piled by his side, wheezing profanely as the lurching of the hack over the cobblestones jolted the sea-bags against him, and grunting at my efforts to make conversation. Newman sat by my side. Once he spoke. "You are sure the lady sails, Swede?" was what he said. "Ja, I have it vrom Swope, himself," the crimp replied.
They worked nobly, but wondered why the ship was heading away from the Emerald Isle, and expressed their wonder loudly and profanely. In vain did Murphy explain that Queenstown was around the corner to the south, and it was to Queenstown that they were bound. Their dissatisfaction grew, and at dinner-time lifted them above the weakening influence of the "sign language."
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