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This was a tie, since neither had scored, and Minkie and her rival were allowed to run again; but that half-mile had been too hot, and they had no show for the cup. Mickey met "Diamonds" next day, by chance. "Have a cigar, Mickey." "Oi will thot, sor. Faix, thim's so foine; I'd loike two thank ye, sor." From that time the Little Warhorse became the pride of the Irish boy.
His mind was indeed not at ease. Even the inexcitable old doctor had felt the attraction which had already conquered three such dissimilar people as Alban Morris, Cecilia Wyvil, and Francine de Sor. He was thinking of Emily. A ring at the door-bell announced the arrival of the first patient. The servant introduced a tall lady, dressed simply and elegantly in dark apparel.
"Marry, boy, the world is a great school an' this little drama o' the good God is part of it," said Darrel. "An' the play hath a great moral thou shalt learn to use thy brain or die. Now, there be many perils in this land o' the woods so many that all its people must learn to think or perish by them. A pretty bit o' wisdom it is, sor.
'Begad, sor, they were all aginst me for agraying to take the twinty-foive, whispered the well-to-do tenant who was talking to the agent. 'I fail to understand, said Captain Hibbert haughtily, 'that Miss Barton said anything that would lead me to suppose that she wished me to give her up. However, I do not see that anything would be gained by discussing this matter further. Good-morning, Mrs.
Uncle John woke up with a final snort, removed the newspaper from his face and sat up. He smiled benignantly upon his nieces. "It's all your fault, sor!" declared Major Doyle, selecting the little millionaire as the safest recipient of his displeasure. "Your foolishness has involved us all in this dreadful complication. Why on earth couldn't you leave well-enough alone?"
He immediately called in MacPherson and gave him some orders, or rather directions, which the Irishman could not understand. He knew only that he was to go to the Temple of the Leaf and there touch certain objects in a certain way; also, he was to arrange to get near Chick, and give him a word of cheer. "But it dinna work as he said it, sor; he had expected to catch th' Senestro.
Juanita who had moved away impatiently, now turned and looked at Sor Teresa. The gloom of evening was gathering in the little bare room. The stillness of the convent was oppressive. "Were you suited to the religious life?" asked the girl suddenly. But Sor Teresa made no answer. Juanita sat suddenly down. Her movements were quick and impulsive still, as they had been when she was a schoolgirl.
Charity," said the clock tinker, turning as if to address one behind him. "Sweet Charity! attend upon this boy. Mayhap, sor," he continued meekly. "God hath blessed me with little knowledge o' what is possible. But I speak of a time before guilt had sored him. He was officer of a great bank let us say in Boston.
Ignoring the tail of the speech, Larry saluted anew: "Sure, sor, I knew ye at first fer gintleman and leddy, which this same last proves; a rale gintleman and his leddy can cut about doin' the loikes of which poor folks ud be damned fer!
"It burns a blue light!" corrected Hogan with chattering teeth. "Th' ship o' the dead!" shivered Mulcher. A sudden explanation flashed into Madden's head. "You fools are afraid of our own dry dock," he whispered briefly. "We've traveled in a circle and reached the dock again." "Oh, no, sor, it ain't that! Tain't th' dry-dock, sor!" aspirated several fear-struck voices.
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