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Updated: June 11, 2025
From behind the other closed doors, the merry voices of the checker-players and rooter grew very audible. Despite the hostess's cordial injunction, the two young people in the shut Cooney parlor did not immediately sit down and begin to entertain each other.
"Then why in thunder don't you strike up?" answered Dan Cooney, and fetched his concertina. The Snipe struck up, then and there "Villikins and his Dinah"! What is more, the Gaffer looked up from his "Paradise Lost," and joined in the chorus. By the end of the second day, Long Ede was up and active again. He went about with a dazed look in his eyes.
That which made it seem the greater Mystery was, that when they came behind the Scenes to uncase, and examine the Matter, they found but twelve Antiques, whereas on the Stage there were thirteen . . ." "Let him say it. Let him say he didn't mean it, the rotten Irishman!" Cooney flung a leg wearily over the side of his hammock, jerked himself out, and shuffled across to the sick man's berth.
"Who was that?" said Canning, suspending conversation to bow, with Carlisle, to a passing female pedestrian. "Oh," she laughed, a little vexedly, roused from her meditations "just one of my poor relations." "Ah?" said he, a trifle surprised. A far cry, indeed, from the celebrated dowager, friend of diplomats and presidents, to Miss Cooney of Saltman's bookstore, in a three-year-old skirt.
"Movement is useless don't move, lady! We have you covered " "There, there, children! stop showing your jealousy," laughed Mrs. Cooney; and her eyes rested with a brief wistfulness on the shining niece who plumed eagle's feathers for flights where her daughters would never follow. "You'd all give your eye-teeth to be half as pretty and attractive as Cally ..." "Yes'm," said Chas.
Cooney tumbled out with an oath and a thud. "Hush it, you white-livered swine! Hush it, or by " His hand went behind him to his knife-sheath. "Dan Cooney" the Gaffer closed his book and leaned out "go back to your bed." "I won't, Sir. Not unless " "Go back." "Flesh and blood " "Go back." And for the third time that night Cooney went back.
She recognized this voice at the first word. And she involuntarily rose in the Cooney parlor, feeling the oddest, suddenest, most unreasoning impulse to go at once into the dining-room, after all, and be with Looloo, and watch them play checkers for a little while.... It was the surprise of it; nothing more. And Carlisle overcame that impulse.
V.V. in the Cooney parlor. Only she could not make her apology, no matter how much she might want to.... "... Stop a minute," Hen was heard to say, "and pass the time of day ..." Unintelligible murmuring, and then: "D'you know who it was that invented stopping and passing the time of day?" said the nearing voice of Mr. V.V., gayer than Cally Heth had ever heard it. "Take my word, 't was a woman."
Now, we simply ask the reader which dialogue is in the more appropriate keeping with the characters of honest, candid Jemmy and Cooney? "And now," proceeded Cooney, "regard-in' this match between your youngest daughter Margaret, and my son Toal."
Cooney and Hen, having rushed out for the welcome, had at once rushed back to the preparations for supper. For it appeared that Hortense was absent once again, having asked to "git to git" a night off, to see her step-daughter allianced to a substitute Pullman porter.
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