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"So common-sense, too no nonsense about HER! I shouldn't have thought a gaby like Ned could have sported such trump of a sister." "Another pensioner for your CARITAS, dear," said Mahony, in passing on the verdict. What he did not grieve his wife by repeating were certain bad reports of Ned lately brought him by Jerry.
There will be a lot of them at Gortnaclough to-morrow, and I shall tell them that we, on our side, won't be wanting. To give them their due, I must say that they are working well. That young Herbert Fitzgerald's a trump, whether he's Protestant or Catholic." "An' they do say he's a strong bearing towards the ould religion," said Mrs. O'Dwyer.
That was the sop to her inner judge, but the motive power was this: "At any price I must hold him." And convinced that the time had come to play her highest trump she fell asleep. The following morning found Belle fully prepared for energetic action.
A great deal of company, and the weather and garden pleasant: that it is very pleasant and cheap going thither, for a man may go to spend what he will, or nothing, all is one. But to hear the nightingale and other birds, and here fiddles, and there a harp, and here a Jew's trump, and here laughing, and there fine people walking, is mighty divertising.
We met nothing, luckily; and I pulled the horses in after a mile or two, and I drove 'em into Brighton as quiet as if I had been driving a hearse. And that little trump of an Ethel, what do you think she said? She said: 'I was not frightened, but you must not tell mamma. My aunt, it appears, was in a dreadful commotion. I ought to have thought of that."
Paul met it with a friendly grasp, while the faces of both men expanded in smiling goodwill. "Y-you're a trump, P-Paul," said the captain. "I I won't drink a-another d'op!" And Master Trench kept his word. From that day forth, till circumstances rendered drinking impossible, he drank nothing stronger than water.
Well, 'all's well that ends well. Did it ever occur to you that God made up to mankind for the horrors of creation, by stating that there would be an end to it some day? Good God, if this terrible world had to roll on to all eternity!" Doctor Gordon laughed again his unnatural laugh. "Fancy if you were awakened to-night by the last trump," he said. "How small everything would seem.
I have ofttimes wondered what happened to the little family in the old hotel. So March 21st came, as we knew it would come, even to the very date, and Ludendorff played his trump cards and the great game. Before that date I had an interview with General Gough, commanding the Fifth Army.
No soul ever heerd of such a name for a Christian since baptism came in fashion. "'I am sorry for that, said the Squire, 'for it's a mighty pretty name. I heard it once in church, and I thought if ever I had a son I'de call him after him; but if I can't have that and it's a dreadful pity call him Trump; and he was christenened Trump Card.
'Don't talk to me about the proper authorities, she said, stamping her foot, 'I'll hang the proper authorities when they turn up and in the meantime we'll go to work! By Jove, she was a trump, that girl! If she didn't save my life, she did still better and saved my leg." "Well, I'll try to get you moved by to-morrow," said Jack reassuringly.
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