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Then he chanced to see another cab, and hurried to it, waving for Tom and Sam to do the same. He ordered the driver to keep the first turnout in sight, but not to get too close. "I can do that with ease," said the driver, with a broad grin. "It's Jerry Dillon's cab, and Jerry's horse is no good at all."
Garrick was standing ruefully beside the roulette wheel at which so many fortunes had been dissipated. "Get me an axe," he asked of one of Dillon's men who was passing. With a well-directed blow he smashed the wheel. "Look," he exclaimed, "this is what they were up against."
How did they all manage to get out so quickly?" We had reached the basement which contained the kitchens for the buffet and quarters for the servants. A hasty excursion into the littered back yard under the guidance of Dillon's men who had been sent around that way netted us nothing in the way of information. They had not made their escape over the back fences.
Little lame Phelim came for an hour each afternoon to Miss Annie's room to be made a "schollard, shure;" and every Saturday evening found Annorah, with her Bible, seated by her mother's fireside, reading, and in her own earnest but uncouth manner expounding the truths she read. One Sabbath evening in March, Father M'Clane set out for a walk to Mrs. Dillon's cottage.
On the 20th of November, 1839, the vessel entered Dillon's Bay, and a canoe with three men paddled up to her. A boat was lowered, in which Mr. Williams, two other missionaries named Harris and Cunningham, Captain Morgan, and four sailors seated themselves. Pulling into a creek, some beads and a small looking-glass were thrown to the natives, and water asked for by signs.
She felt like a swimmer in a swift current when the deep waters are closing over his head. "Now tell her you ain't good enough for her, that you've got no sand in yore craw, and she's to go with me," ordered Houck. "No." Young Dillon's voice came dry from a throat like cotton. The big man caught Bob's wrist and slowly twisted. The boy gave an agonized howl of pain.
John Marshall" and Horace Binney's "Eulogy" , both of which were pronounced by personal friends shortly after Marshall's death and both of which are now available in volume III of Dillon's compilation, cited above.
But the French Government, fearing that Dumont d'Urville was not acquainted with Dillon's movements, had sent the sloop Bayonnaise, commanded by Legoarant de Tromelin, to Vanikoro, which had been stationed on the west coast of America.
"The flower of Ireland. Those three names have been my comfort these last three weeks." "And all the three at Schlestadt. How comes that about?" "Your Highness, they are all three officers in Dillon's Irish regiment, and so have that further advantage." "Advantage?"
"Here, in fact," he continued, "is a cheque which she asks you to transmit, and which, as I think you will agree, ought to silence, on your part as well as Mrs. Dillon's, any criticism of Mrs. Westmore's dealings with her operatives." The blood rose to Amherst's forehead, and he just restrained himself from pushing back the cheque which Mr. Tredegar had laid on the table between them.
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