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An hour later the two stood at the open doorway of an immense, gloomy brick building in a narrow and lonely street. The license was tight in Norah's hand. "Wait here a moment," she said, "till I find Father Rogan." She plunged into the black hallway, and the lover was left standing, as it were, on one leg, outside. His impatience was not greatly taxed.
However, he was eating the leg of a dry grouse at the time, so it didn't make much of a mess. "`Try some fish, Peterkin, said Mr Rogan kindly, seeing that the youth was ill at ease. `That old grouse is tough enough to break your knife.
Rogan to prepare for an early start, Harry retired precipitately to his own room, and there, after cutting unheard of capers, and giving vent to sudden, incomprehensible shouts, all indicative of the highest state of delight, he condescended to tell his companions of his good fortune, and set about preparations without delay.
"Ay," replied the doctor, who affected to be quite cool upon all occasions, and rather cooler than usual if the occasion was more than ordinarily exciting "ay, we do mean it. Old Rogan has got the packet, and is even now disembowelling it."
Lieutenant Hardin and Sergeant Rogan carried him into a sheltered spot near where the body of Captain Logan lay. By this time Coolidge had recovered from the shock of his wound sufficiently to be able to walk, and, although weak from the loss of blood, picked up a rifle that had belonged to a fallen comrade and again took his place at the head of his company.
'No, it's Tom Price, the dispensary doctor; and as Miss Betty withdrew her subscription last year, they say he swore he'd pay her off for it. 'I know Tom, and I'll see to that, said Kearney. 'Are the affidavits sworn? 'No. They are drawn out; McEvoy is copying them now; but they'll be ready by three o'clock. 'I'll have Rogan to swear that the boy must be removed at once.
For some time after the rebuke administered by Mr. Rogan, silence reigned in Bachelor's Hall, as the clerks' house was termed. But at length symptoms of ennui began to be displayed. The doctor yawned and lay down on his bed to enjoy an American newspaper about twelve months old.
Never more than now, when, perhaps, she is laughing at the fool she cajoled and left, with scarcely a word, to return to God only knows what particular line of her former folly." Father Rogan answered nothing. During the silence that succeeded, he sat with a quiet expectation beaming in his full, lambent eye. "If you would listen " began Lorison. The priest held up his hand.
After another pause, during which the party had left the open river and directed their course through the woods, where the depth of the snow obliged them to tread in each other's footsteps, Harry resumed the conversation. "You have not yet told me, by-the-bye, what old Mr Rogan said to you just before we started.
He came at nightfall a fat, comely-looking, somewhat unctuous gentleman, with excellent teeth and snow-white hands, symmetrical and dimpled like a woman's. He saw the patient, questioned him slightly, and divined without waiting for it what the answer should be; he was delighted with Rogan, pleased with Price, but he grew actually enthusiastic over those charming nurses, Nina and Kate.
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