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Terence made a round of the troops and addressed a few words to each company, praising their conduct, and thanking them for the readiness and quickness with which they had obeyed his orders. "You see, my lads," he said, "what can be done by discipline.
"'Are you ill, O'Grady? the colonel said, for I had to sit meself down on some steps and rock meself to and fro to aise meself. 'Is it sick ye are? 'A sudden pain has saised me, Colonel, says I, 'but I will be all right in a minute. 'Take a dram out of me flask, says he; something must have gone wrong wid ye. I took a drink " "That I may be sure you did," Terence interrupted.
The distance travelled had been over two hundred and fifty miles and, including halts, they had taken five weeks to perform it. Terence gained strength greatly during the journey, and Bull had so far recovered that he was able to get out and walk, sometimes, by the side of the waggon. Garcia had been indefatigable in his efforts for their comfort.
From the watchman he learned that one Terence Reardon had been her chief engineer in the days when the Oriental Steamship Company first owned her. From the Narcissus, Matt Peasley returned to the city and went at once to the office of the Marine Engineers' Association, where he made inquiry for Terence Reardon.
I only know that as we walked home past the doors of that dingy Paddington house where Terence O'Malley kept his dusty books and papers and so to my own quarters, these things he talked about dropped into my mind with a bewildering splendor to stay forever. His words I have forgotten, or how he made such speculations worth listening to at all.
Ellen sat close to him, trying to soothe him and trying to get him to tell her what was the matter. When Mrs. O'Brien and Kathleen came in Terence seemed to try to make himself smaller, but he did nothing else. "Ellen," said Mrs. O'Brien, "come outside the room here for a moment; I have something to tell you." "Look at Terence there," Ellen answered; "how can I leave him when he's that way?"
"Terence, when I get well you will repint of your impudence to your supayrior officer, when he is not able to defend himself." Terence went across to his father's bed. "Do you really feel easier, father?" "A great deal, lad. I was so bruised that every breath I took hurt me; since I have been tightly bandaged I am better, ever so much.
We had the aid of all the virtuous poverty and leisure of the modern town there was a vast deal of both, we found in our search for the staircase by which you descend to the classic plain, and it proved a discovery involving the outlay of all the copper coin about us, while the sight of the famous theatre of Herculaneum was much more expensive than it would have been had we come there in the old time to see a play of Plautus or Terence.
I am half owner of the schooner, and should have lost all I was worth, to say nothing of perhaps having to pass the next five years in a French prison." "We are two British officers," Terence said.
'Tut, man, said Sir Terence; 'I know him now better than you; he will stand, you'll find, the shock of that regiment of figures he is steel to the backbone, and proof spirit. 'I thank you, my dear father, said Lord Colambre, 'for trusting me thus at once with a view of the truth.
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