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Even when he had recovered from the shortness of breath occasioned by a trot much more rapid than Rory or he were accustomed to, the high purpose of Dumbiedikes seemed to stick as it were in his throat, and impede his utterance, so that Butler stood for nearly three minutes ere he could utter a syllable; and when he did find voice, it was only to say, after one or two efforts, "Uh! uh! uhm!
Rory O'Ryan, alias O'Ryan, the roaring lion; that's a good one; put it about Rory O'Ryan, the roaring lion, ha! ha! ha! but you don't take it you don't laugh, Wheeler. Wheeler. Ha! ha! ha! O, upon my honour I do laugh; ha! ha! ha! It is the hardest work to laugh at his wit. You know I always laugh, Bursal, at your jokes he! he! he! ready to kill myself. Burs.
"Aisy, Tammas! For marcy sake, don't! Can't ye take the shurt aff the nail without cuttin' it?" At this moment, the engine driver threw the fan belt off, and Rory was soon liberated. His satisfaction at finding the garment almost uninjured was but slightly dashed by the bruise on his arm. The latter would heal of itself; the former would n't.
"Run, massa, run! dey kill you!" "Run!" cried Rory scornfully. "You may run, but I belong to a race that never runs!" It was at the siege of Sunbury that Colonel Mcintosh, when summoned by Colonel Prevost to surrender the fort, sent back the reply, "Come and take it!"
"I thought I had met him before, but could n't place him. And so Rory has found his way here?" "Well, he was brought here," replied Andrews. "Twelve or fourteen years ago he turned up at Moogoojinna, down Deniliquin way, and froze to the station. Then when Arbuthnot settled this place five years ago now Spanker brought Rory with him, and he's been here ever since.
My money was gone, and, oh! the grief I felt was deeper than waking language can describe. Then, Grace, said I, you must receive consolation for your disagreeable dream, in the words of your own favourite song, "Rory o'More," that dreams always go by contrary you know, and so I shall read your dream. The plain gold ring means that tie, which, like it, has no ending.
In July, Rory O'Donnell expired at Rome, in August, Maguire died at Genoa, on his way to Spain, and in September, Caffar O'Donnell was laid in the same grave with his brother, on St. Peter's hill. O'Neil survived his comrades, as he had done his fortunes, and like another Belisarius, blind and old, and a pensioner on the bounty of strangers, he lived on, eight weary years, in Rome.
And, sure enough, there lay the child's little coppertoed boots, where she had taken them off when her feet got sore, and walked on in her socks. It was just then that a tank-sinker drove up, with Dan and his dog in the buggy." "Poor old Rory!" I interposed. "Much excited?" "Well no. But there was a look of suspense in his face that was worse.
"'How are you, Rory? Suppose we take a bit of a walk. "Well, he held up his ead stiff and straight, and didn't speak for a minute or two; at last he said: "'How do you do, Sargeant Jackson? "'Why, Rory, sais I, 'what hails you to hact that way? What's the matter with you now, to treat an old comrade in that manner? "He stared ard at me in the face hagain, without giving any explanation.
"Will ye repate that, Tammas, iv ye plaze." I briefly rehearsed such relevant information as I possessed, whilst Rory kidnapped the geographical names, and imprisoned them in his note-book, trusting to his memory for the rest.
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