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"I suppose it is." "Good, me darlin'. Ye'll never regret it" O'Connell said this with a cheery laugh, though his heart was aching at the thought of being separated from her. Peg looked at him reproachfully. Then she said: "It's surprised I am at ye turnin' me away from ye to go into a stuck-up old man's house that threated me mother the way he did." And so the discussion ended.
For this same castle, an ye speed well, must needs be yours; for our King Hermance let make this castle for the love of the two traitors, and so we kept it with strong hand, and therefore full sore are we threated. Wot ye what ye shall do, said Sir Palomides; whatsomever come of me, look ye keep well this castle.
The Major resigned, and the captain publicly insulted the Quartermaster and threated to horsewhip him. In one letter Caleb Swan, on March 11, 1792, advises Wilkinson that he had been to Kentucky and had paid off the Kentucky militia who had served under St. Clair. Wilkinson in a letter of March 13th, expresses the utmost anxiety for the retention of St. Clair in command.
On his arrival there he met a French pirate, who pretended to have a warm regard for him, and invited him, with his officers, to an entertainment. Suspecting nothing he accepted the invitation, but no sooner had they been well seated at the table than they were all seized and threated with instant death, unless they surrendered their prize.
And it was a grand way he threated me mother when she was starvin'." "He wants to do somethin' for ye now, Peg." "I'll not go to him." "Now listen, dear; it's little I'll have to lave ye when I'm gone," pleaded O'Connell. "I'll not listen to any talk at all about yer goin'. Yer a great strong healthy man that's what ye are. What are ye talkin' about? What's got into yer head about goin'?"
"That's thrue," sez he, pulling his moustache; "but I do not believe that you, for all your lip, was in that business." "Sargint," I sez, "I cud hammer the life out av a man in ten minuts wid my fistes if that man dishpleased me; for I am a good sodger, an' I will be threated as such, an' whoile my fistes are my own they're strong enough for all work I have to do.
"Th' good woman niver done me no har-rm; an', beyond throwin' a rock or two into an orangey's procission an' subscribin' to tin dollars' worth iv Fenian bonds, I've threated her like a lady. Anny gredge I iver had again her I burrid long ago. We're both well on in years, an' 'tis no use carrying har-rd feelin's to th' grave.
"Well, sor, I tuk the bag and wint out of the station, tuk the cab, an' did all as he towld me. I waited the foive minuts, but he niver came, so off I druv to Misther Hollams, and he threated me han'some, sor." "Yes, but tell me exactly all he did." "'Misther Hollams, sor? sez I. 'Who are ye? sez he.
But it's not goin' to happen again; it was just a bit of a jollification we threated ourselves to upon the strength of foindin' the oiland all right; but there'll be no more of it barrin', maybe, a bit of a spree when our work's done here, and we're ready to sail for home again.
And when he had read them, and understood them, he was wroth with Sir Tristram, for he deemed that he had sent the damosel unto King Arthur. For Arthur and Launcelot in a manner threated King Mark. And as King Mark read these letters he deemed treason by Sir Tristram. Damosel, said King Mark, will ye ride again and bear letters from me unto King Arthur?
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