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Y is the yielding to blackguards unshorn, which cannot and will not much longer be borne. Z is the zeal with which England put down the Protestant boys who stood up for the crown." There you have the present spirit of Derry. Two miles outside the town I came on a fine Home Ruler, who had somewhere failed to sell a pig. "Sorra one o' me 'll do any good till we get Home Rule."
"There must be some way out, Derry." But what way? The Tin Soldier had jumped from the shelf, but he had fallen through a crack! And the war was going on without him ! Christmas morning found the General conscious. He was restless until Jean was brought to him. He had a feeling that she had saved him from Hilda. He wanted her where he could see her. "Don't leave me," he begged.
Ten days later, when the boys met, John said: "This is the last time we shall meet for some time, Walter, for I am going up to Derry to stay with a cousin of my father, who is settled there and exercises the trade of a currier. I said, some months ago, that I should like to learn a trade, but everyone was against it, then.
If she came into the hall she might see him on the stairs. He had done what he could. He would leave the rest to Derry. "What's the matter?" the General asked. "I thought I heard a sound but there's no one up. This is our hour, isn't it?" She brought the bottle out from behind the books. Then she came and stood by the side of the bed. "Will you drink to my happiness, General?"
If Hilda went to France, would she see Daddy and weave her wicked spells. To find the General melting into pity, in spite of the chaos which Hilda's treachery had created, was to wonder if Daddy, too, might melt. She wrote to Derry about it. "I would try and see her if I knew what to say, but when I even think of it I am scared.
We are down here on Long Island on a strip of high land that runs between the beautiful bay and the very ocean, and when Jim and Derry are not in the one they are apt to be in the other. It will be a great joy to them to have a guest, and a delight to me to take good care of your boy. I think he will enjoy it, and it will certainly do him good.
First, as I told you, I think it were better to leave Derry alone, until the main issue is settled. Secondly, King James has no military experience whatever, and if ought goes wrong with the expedition, he will lose prestige.
There had been a sunset and an afterglow, and a twilight, and an evening star to ravish them as they rode, to say nothing of the moon they came to the Doctor's door quite dizzy with the joy of it. Derry was loath to leave. "Can't we all go to a play tonight?" he asked Jean's father. "You and Miss Bridges and the two of us?" "Certainly not. Jean has done enough to-day. She isn't made of iron."
But he was a gentleman in the fine old English sense; he was a soldier with but one idea, that every physically able man should fight. Every sentence that he spoke was charged with this belief, and every sentence carried a sting for Derry. More than once Peggy found it necessary to change the subject frantically. Drusilla supplemented her efforts. But gradually the Captain's manner froze.
The story of the siege of Derry of the heroic constancy of its defenders of the atrocities of De Rosen and Galmoy the clemency of Maumont the forbearance of Hamilton the struggles for supremacy among its magnates the turbulence of the townsfolk the joyful raising of the siege all these have worthily employed some of the most eloquent pens in our language.
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