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"He and a lot of young loafers took a horse and drove him all through my cornfield to-day, and now you've got to pay the damages." "My son is not a scallywag," Mr. Mason declared, "and if you call him names like loafer and scallywag I'll make you pay damages." "Oh! you will, eh?" the other sneered. "Think I'm afraid of an old constable up here, do you?" "Well now, see here," Mr.
That is no business of mine. If there is discretion in this world in which you can trust blindly, it is that of Phineas McPhail. I just told her of Denby Hall and your fortune, which I fairly accurately computed at a couple of million francs. For I thought it was right she should know that you weren't just a scallywag private soldier like the rest of us.
Only their conversation, half serious, half joking, brought back the picture of Jimmy O'Shea Irishman, cowpuncher, general scallywag, and his doctrines of war and the way of his death.
To her, this represented the destruction of an ideal she had never hoped to realise; but, as she wiped a few tears from her eyes that evening she remarked to herself: "Life is made up of not getting what you want, Molly Healy. It is better Desmond should become a priest than die a scallywag and it will keep him out of the way of that Sylvia Custance. God knows what is best for every one of us."
"And, besides the letter and marriage certificate which were in her possession, making good her pretensions, she had an honest face, and appeared respectable, far too much so for the wife of such a scallywag as old Yorke's son is said to have been." "If the Yorkes allow her claim, and take in this numerous family, it will interfere with your plans for Mrs. Yorke, uncle," I said.
The sergeant brought it, and Dick pushed the still tipsy wretch, a bundle of false elegance deflowered, into its embrace. Then Randal, with beaming face, caught his brother by the shoulders. "You grisly scallywag!" he cried. Finucane had risen, turning his own chair for the new-comer. "Sit down, sir," he said. And Dick, seeing only those who addressed him, dropped into the seat.
"An' a fine man too you've got, none o' your scallywag weaklings as one sees too much of nowadays, but a real upright sort o' chap wi' no nonsense about 'im. An' I wishes ye well, Mary, my dear," and the worthy soul took Mary's hand in hers and gave her a hearty kiss.
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