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Reardon to join him in three fingers of nepenthe to celebrate the occasion. "T'ank you, sor, but I never dhrink on djooty," Mr. Reardon retorted with chill politeness, "nor," he added, "wit' me immejiate superiors." A superficial analysis of this remark will convince the most sceptical that Mr. Reardon, with true Hibernian adroitness, had managed to convey an insult without seeming to convey it.
Helb yourself, mine Freund, und den gif me der key back." "Ye addie-pated son of sin!" Mr. Reardon soliloquized as he took the key and departed. "Faith, a booby birrd has more sinse nor you! D'ye suppose I didn't wait until ye were on djooty before axin' ye, well knowin' ye'd lind me the key an' I'd be alone in yer shtore-room!" Mr. Reardon was in the store-room less than two minutes.
"That was before the Blue Star Navigation Company took over the young man and his ship Narcissus. Hereafter you'll deal with the old man in such matters. I'm going to give you two hundred a month, Reardon, and you are to keep the Narcissus out of the shop. Hear me, chief out of the shop." "No man can ordher me to do me djooty," said Terence Reardon simply.
'Why not save expinse, says he, 'an' ship the crew av this German liner that's interned over in Richardson's Bay? Riggins, to make a long shtory short, we have thim this minute, an' the dear God knows that even if shipped at the German scale av wages that gang'll prove a dear crew to the Blue Star Navigation Company if you an' I, Riggins, fail to do our djooty.
"It is-as you'll discover whin you're able to come on deck an' give me the satisfaction I'll demand for the dirrty dab av wather an' cotton waste you put in the tube, knowin' that the firrst time I took it down to spheak to you, ye blackguard, in the line av djooty which is the only reason I would spheak to you I'd get it full in the mouth. Ye dirrty, lyin', schamin', dhrunken murrderer!"
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