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Some two or three minutes had passed before they reached the middle of the stream, which was, as Puddock afterwards remarked, 'gigantically thwollen; and at this point they came to something very like a stand-still. 'I say, Puddock, keep her head a little more up the stream, will you? said Cluffe, thinking no evil, and only to show his nautical knowledge.
'Lend a hand, bawled Puddock, in extremity. 'I say, help, seize the rope; I say, Cluffe, quick, Sir, my arms are breaking. There was no exaggeration in this there seldom was in any thing Puddock said; and the turn of the boat had twisted his arms like the strands of a rope. 'Hold on, Puddock, curse you, I'm comin', roared Cluffe, quite alive to the situation.
'Why, there it is! replied the colonel, with a great oath, breaking through all his customary reserve and stiffness, and flinging his cocked-hat on the middle of the table, piteously, 'A fellow that can't swim a yard will go by way of saving a great a large gentleman, like Captain Cluffe, from drowning, and he's pulled in himself; and so bless my soul! what's to be done?
'He'th dying Devereux Cluffe he'th I tell you, he'th dying; and he was on the point of declaring himself O'Flaherty's murderer, and surrendering himself as such into the hands of anybody who would accept the custody of his person, when the recollection of his official position as poor O'Flaherty's second flashed upon him, and collecting with a grand effort, his wits and his graces
In the meantime, stout, tightly-braced Captain Cluffe of the same corps, and little dark, hard-faced, and solemn Mr.
So they walked on a little way in silence, and Cluffe, who, with his face very red, and his mouth a good deal expanded, and down in the corners, was looking steadfastly forward, exclaimed suddenly, 'Well? 'I see, Cluffe, said Puddock; 'you don't think it prudent you think we mayn't be happy?
Cluffe was, perhaps, a little bit stupid, and Lowe knew it; but it was the weakness of that good magistrate to discover in a witness for the crown many mental and moral attributes which he would have failed to recognise in him had he appeared for the prisoner. 'And where's that whip, now? demanded Lowe. 'By the hall-door, with his riding-coat, Sir, answered the bewildered housekeeper.
Let her take her own way. What care I? If she's happy, why shouldn't I why shouldn't I? Five minutes after: 'Who the plague are these fellows in the Phoenix? How the brutes howl over their liquor! said Devereux, as he and Puddock, at the door-steps, awaited Cluffe, who was fixing his buckles in the drawing-room.
'Upon my life, if this Connaught rapparee is permitted to carry on his business of indiscriminate cut-throat here, he'll make the service very pleasant, resumed Cluffe, who, though a brisk young fellow of eight-and-forty, had no special fancy for being shot. 'I say the general ought to take the matter into his own hands. 'Not till I'm done with it, growled Nutter.
I was cool enough, but a strain on the mind was more to me then than twenty years before. So I drank a dram, and I heard a noise outside my window. 'Twas then that stupid dog, Cluffe, saw me, as he swears. 'Well, next day Sturk was brought home; Nutter was gone, and the suspicion attached to him. That was well.
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