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"Shove on, sir shove on!" hastily repeated the sheriff's officer, urging his orders by a nudge or two on Tom's elbow. "Don't shove me, sir!" said Tom, rather angrily, "or by G " "Aisy, sir aisy!" said the bailiff; "though I feel for the defficulties of a gintleman, the caption must be made, sir.
"And puts my things in the paper, when he gets the editor's back turned, for the editor is a consaited chap that likes no one's po'thry but his own; but never mind if I ever get a writ against that chap, won't I sarve it!" "And I dar say some day you will have it agen him, sir," said Larry. "Sure of it, a'most," said Goggins; "them litherary men is always in defficulties."
There's a friend of mine you see, a gentleman connected with the press, who is often in defficulties, and I give him a hint to keep out o' the way when he's in trouble, and he swears I've a genus for the muses, and encourages me " "Humph!" says Larry.
I do assure you, sir, it is a most beautiful sight to see the gentlemen in defficulties waitin' here for their friends to come to their relief, like the last scene in Blue Beard, where sister Ann waves her han'kerchief from the tower the tyrant is slain and virtue rewarded!
We are not far now, sir, from my little bower of repose which is the name I give my humble abode small, but snug, sir. You'll see another gintleman there, sir, before you. He is waitin' for bail these three or four days, sir can't pay as he ought for the 'commodation, but he's a friend o' mine, I may almost say, sir a litherary gintleman them litherary gintlemen is always in defficulties mostly.
"And if you would not consider it trifling with the feelings of a gintleman in defficulties, I would make the playful observation, sir, that it's quite in character to be arrested at the suit of a tailor. He! he! he!" "You're a wag, I see," said Tom. "Oh no, sir, only a poetic turn: a small affection I have certainly for Judy Mot, but my rale passion is the muses.
There the bailiff demanded in a very angry tone the cause of Tom's conduct; and when it was found to be only a mutual misunderstanding that Goggins wouldn't take a liberty with a gentleman "in defficulties" for the world, and that Tom wouldn't hurt a fly, "only under a mistake" matters were cleared up to the satisfaction of all parties, and the real business of the meeting commenced: that was to pay Tom's debt out of hand; and when the bailiff saw all demands, fees included, cleared off, the clouds from his brow cleared off also, he was the most amiable of sheriff's officers, and all his sentimentality returned.
"This is for you, sir," he said, handing Tom a piece of dirty printed paper, and at the same time laying his hand on Tom's shoulder and executing a smirking sort of grin, which he meant to be the pattern of politeness, added, "You'll excuse me, sir, but I arrest you under a warrant from the High Sheriff of the city of Dublin; always sorry, sir, for a gintleman in defficulties, but it's my duty."
"You're a bailiff, then?" said Tom. "Sir," said the bum, "'Honour and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part there all the honour lies." "I meant no offence," said Tom. "I only meant " "I understand, sir I understand. These little defficulties startles gintlemen at first you've not been used to arrest, I see, sir?" "Never in my life did such a thing happen before," said Tom.
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