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"Connolly," says the account, "arrived on the scene just as one of the police got in behind the counter. Inquiring if the police had any search warrant, they answered that they had not. On hearing this, Mr.
But instead, Connolly consulted Samuel J. Tilden, who advised him to appoint Andrew H. Green, a well-known and respected citizen, as his deputy. This turned the tables on the three other members of the Ring, whose efforts to oust both Connolly and Green were unavailing. In this manner the citizens got control of the treasury books, and the Grand Jury began its inquisitions.
Come. By Jove! What? A blush? And on that asbestos cheek? Something here, sure enough." "Oh, rot, Cameron! Connolly is a well-known somnambulist." "Sure thing!" said Connolly. "Is it catchin, for I guess you had the same thing last night?" "Connolly, you've gone batty! You need a nurse." "A nurse? Maybe so. Maybe so. But I guess you've got to the point where you need a preacher. Ha! ha!
This was not the hour and the other shots, the volley, we both expected did not come. Instead, came the second mate's voice bellowing orders, "Connolly the wheel! Hard alee! Weather main brace!" Then, clearer, as he shouted through the cabin skylights, "Captain on deck, quick!" It was the hail for which I had waited so long and anxiously. But the news that came with it was strange and startling.
I've always wanted t' meet with him, an' say I wouldn't ha' missed him for a farm." "Is that so!" exclaimed Mrs. Trapes, entering the room at this moment with the tea-cloth, "well, now you jest put 'im down you jest put that bird back again, Spider Connolly!" "Yes, ma'am," quoth the Spider, all abashed humility.
Miss Connolly was often his companion. The importation from Belfast relieved her of some of the pressure of household cares, and since her brothers were fully occupied, it devolved upon her to play host as well as hostess, and point out to the stranger the various charms of Lisnahoe. This suited Harold exactly.
She knew as certainly as if the fifteen seniors had told her that Floyd would be "tapped for Bones." The crew captain and the foot-ball captain are almost inevitably taken for Skull and Bones. Yet five years before Jack Emmett, captain of the crew, had not been taken; only two years back Bert Connolly, captain of the foot-ball team, had not been taken.
Archie did not reply. He was staring glassily across the room at two men who had just come in. One was a large, stout, square-faced man of commanding personality. The other was Mr. Daniel Brewster. Mr. Blumenthal followed his gaze. "Why, there is Connolly coming in now!" "Father!" gasped Lucille. Her eyes met Archie's. Archie took a hasty drink of ice-water. "This," he murmured, "has torn it!"
O'Dwyer, Bishop of Limerick, one of the ablest as well as the most independent thinkers in Ireland, has been mentioned as one of the forces of the rebellion in fact, he was generally supposed to be one of the marked men of the Fein programme of suppression, being considered more dangerous to the realm than Connolly in a word, he was looked upon as a red-hot Sinn Feiner.
There cannot be the slightest doubt that the rich, as a class, were eager to have the Tweed régime continue. They might pose as fine moralists and profess to instruct the poor in religion and politics, but this attitude was a fraud; they deliberately instigated, supported, and benefited by, all of the great strokes of thievery that Tweed and Connolly put through.
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