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But Lord Dannisburgh's visit was a compliment, and the freak of his driving down under the beams of Aurora on a sober Sunday morning capital fun; so with a gaiety that was kept alive for the invalid Emma to partake of it, they rattled away to the heights, and climbed them, and Diana rushed to the arms of her friend, whispering and cooing for pardon if she startled her, guilty of a little whiff of blarney: Lord Dannisburgh wanted so much to be introduced to her, and she so much wanted her to know him, and she hoped to be graciously excused for thus bringing them together, 'that she might be chorus to them! Chorus was a pretty fiction on the part of the thrilling and topping voice.
The letter, of course, was plastered all over with Irish blarney. "Hey, Sandy, shoot off one of them things to Mary, will ye?" And the thing was done. The summer cruise of 1883 was up the Adriatic. All the Greek islands were visited. I knew the historical significance of the places, which made that summer cruise a fairyland to me.
Few places in Ireland are more familiar to English ears than Blarney; the notoriety is attributable, first, to the marvelous qualities of its famous "stone," and next, to the extensive popularity of the song, "The groves of Blarney, they are so charming."
It's Gatwick today. Dash! I might have saved you a journey." "Oh, it doesn't matter. In my business there is no call for hurry." Elkin looked around. "Where's our friend, the 'tec?" he said. "I think you're wrong about 'im, meanin' Mr. Peters," said Tomlin. "'E's 'ere for a noospaper, not for the Yard." "That's his blarney," smirked Elkin.
The queen, it is told, when one of his speeches was brought to her, said: 'This is all Blarney; what he says, he never means. "Now, this is the reason for kissing the stone up there in the tower. Listen: "'There is a stone there, whoever kisses, Oh! he never misses to grow eloquent; 'Tis he may clamber to a lady's chamber, Or become a Member of Parliament.
This incident exhibits the two types of the politician, and the two classes of men to be found in all communities the one all "blarney" and selfishness, the other with real manhood redeeming poor human nature, and saving it from utter contempt. The senatorial prize eluded the grasp of both aspirants, but the reader will not be at a loss to guess whose side I was on. Dr.
When the conversation touched on the birthstone for March, some one suggested that Mary ought to be made to do some stunt to show that she was worthy to wear a bloodstone, since it called for such high courage. "Make her kiss the Blarney stone!" cried Judith Ettrick. "At Blarney castle they let you down by the heels. That's the only way you can kiss the real stone.
Just a pleasant drive from Cork is Blarney Castle a noble ruin, towering above a beautiful little lake, all surrounded by delightful, though neglected grounds made famous by an old comic song, called "The Groves of Blarney."
"I am one of the new members of Parliament." Then the blarney came out. "Pass on, Mr. Corfield, your face would carry you anywhere, sir." And so ended the incident. In 1888, £50,000 was put on the Estimates for sinking artesian wells, and a contract entered into with a Canadian company to sink 7,500 feet at certain specified places.
"Jack went back with a heavy heart, as you may be sure, knowing that, whenever the black cur began to blarney him, there was no good to come in his way. He accordingly went into the stable, but consuming to the hand's turn he did, knowing it would be only useless; for, instead of clearing it out, he'd be only filling it.
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