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You know Cluffe better than I, and there's a secret about him I never could find out. You have, maybe? 'What's that? lisped Puddock. 'What the deuce Cluffe's good for. 'Oh! tut! We all know Cluffe's a very good fellow. Devereux looked from under his finely pencilled brows with a sad sort of smile at good little Puddock. 'Puddock, says he, 'I'd like to have you write my epitaph.
So 'tinkle, tinkle, twang, twang, THRUM! went the industrious and accomplished Puddock's guitar; and the voices of the enamoured swains kept tolerable tune and time; and Puddock would say, 'Don't you think, Captain Cluffe, 'twould perhapth go better if we weren't to try that shake upon A. Do let's try the last two barth without it; and 'I'm thorry to trouble you, but jutht wonth more, if you pleathe
This boat was managed by means of a rope stretched across the stream from bank to bank; seizing which, in both hands, the boatman, as he stood in his skiff, hauled it, as it seemed, with very moderate exertion across the river. Cluffe chuckled as he thought how sold the rascally boatman would be, on returning, to find his bark gone over to the other side.
And Slowe stood gazing at the same object with his little faded blue eyes, his disengaged hand in his breeches' pocket, and ever and anon wetting his lips with his hot cordial, and assenting agreeably to the major's conclusions. 'Seize ace! curse it! cried Cluffe, who, I'm happy to say, had taken no harm by his last night's wetting; 'another gammon, I'll lay you fifty.
'I'm sorry, Sir, I embarrassed you with the disadvantage of my company, answered little Puddock, with dignity. 'Why, 'tisn't that, you know, rejoined Cluffe, in a patronising 'my good-fellow' sort of way; 'you know I always liked your company devilish well.
'Prudent, laughed Cluffe, with a variety of unpleasant meanings; and after a while 'And the general knows of it? 'And approves it most kindly, said Puddock. 'What else can he do? sneered Cluffe; ''tis a precious fancy they are such cheats! Why you might be almost her grand-son, my dear Puddock, ha, ha, ha. 'Tis preposterous; you're sixteen years younger than I.
And positively, as she said so, Aunt Rebecca looked down upon her fan; and Cluffe thought looked a little flushed, and confused too; whereat the gallant fellow was so elated that he told her all about the pelican, discarding as unworthy of consideration, under circumstances so imminently promising, a little plan he had formed of keeping the bird privately in Dublin, and looking out for a buyer.
The clatter of old Trimmer's backgammon, Slowe's disputations over the draftboard with Colonel Stafford, Collop's dissertation on the points of that screw of a horse he wanted to sell, and the general buzz of talk, were all almost instantaneously suspended on the appearance of this phantom, and Puddock exclaimed 'Gentlemen, I'm thorry to tell you, Captain Cluffe ith, I fear, drowned!
Toole, without whom no jollification of any sort could occur satisfactorily in Chapelizod or the country round, was this evening at the 'King's House, of course, as usual, with his eyes about him and his tongue busy; and at this moment he was setting Cluffe right about Devereux's relation to the title and estates of Athenry.
But the highwaymen, like the bankers, seemed to know, by instinct, that he had not a guinea, and declined to give him even the miserable help he coveted. When he got home he sent down for Cluffe to the Phoenix, and got him to take Nutter, who was there also, aside, and ask him for a little time, or to take part of the rent.
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