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He had borne something like these discomforts and privations for a day or two at a time, when engaged in Alpine climbing, but that he should be forced to live a life compared with which that of an Irish bog-trotter was decent and civilized, was a daily torment to him. It is true that during the long hours of daylight he wandered among the most sublime scenery.
Haney the elder had something more than the bog-trotter in him, for as he grew towards a little more assurance that Mart would not be thrown out of his hotel for non-payment of bills, he settled down to enjoy his glass of rare whiskey and a costly cigar with an assumption of ease that almost deceived the maid, though Lucius, being in the secret, watched him anxiously for fear he might expectorate on the rug.
She thought it hard that he should not only eat the food and wear the clothes that her own children needed, but should be more liked and admired in the neighborhood than they. She doted on her own boy, Teddy, and thought him not only good-looking, but wonderfully clever when, in fact, a plainer or more stupid young bog-trotter could hardly be found in all Ireland.
"He's no sailor, your honour; but a poor bog-trotter: and he will never do you any good." The captain again shook his head. "Ask me anything else," said he, "and I will give it you." "Well then," said Maria, "give us Felim O'Shaugnessy?" The captain was equally inflexible. "Come, come, your honour," said Judy, "we must not stand upon trifles nowadays.
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