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Where in this vague dreamland of passive purity and heroism, of untempted chastity and untried honour, where are the earthly trials of Tristram, of Guenevere, of Rüdger, of Renaud? Where the moral struggles of the Middle Ages? Where is Godfrey, or Francis, or Dominick? Nowhere.
"To tell you the truth, my boy," returned Dominick, "I never thought of that till this moment, and I can't very well see my way out of the difficulty." Pauline, to whom the brothers now looked, shook her head. Never before, she said, had she occasion to trouble her brain about a light. When she wanted one in England, all she had to do was to call for one, or strike a match.
When Dominick returned to school after these holydays were over, Mr. Owen ap Jones, who now found that the Irish boy had an English protector with a living in his gift, changed his tone.
"That's true," returned Dominick, laughing at his brother's enthusiasm; "let's go aft and see if we can stumble on something more." But the examination of the after part of the vessel yielded no fruit.
Dominick Macguire, waited in his robes to conduct him to the chapel, lately erected by Tyrconnell, where Te Deum was solemnly sung. But of all the incidents of that striking ceremonial, nothing more powerfully impressed the popular imagination than the green flag floating from the main tower of the castle, bearing the significant inscription "Now or Never Now and Forever."
"This won't do," said Dominick, issuing from his room in the palace, and meeting the doctor. "I had just come to the same conclusion," said the latter, "and was about to consult you as to what we should do." "Collect some of our best men and put a stop to it," returned Dominick; "but here comes the prime minister roused, no doubt, as we have been.
It had not been fairly caught, and the wave passed on to fall with a roar like thunder a hundred yards or so ahead. "The next will do it," said Dominick, with an anxious glance behind, where a crystal wall was coming grandly on unnaturally high, it seemed to them, owing to their position in the hollow. No need to tell Otto now to hold on! No need to explain difficulty or danger to Pauline!
As my plans for ousting Dunkirk took shape, I saw clearly that, if he were to be overthrown at once, I must use part of the existing control of the machine of the party, it would take several years, at least three, to build up an entirely new control. To work quickly, I must use Croffut, Dunkirk's colleague in the Senate. And Croffut was the creature of Dominick.
Day by day they had heard it, as one and another of their comrades had been committed to the deep. One of the men managed to stand up, but as he swayed about and gazed at Dominick inquiringly, he lost his balance, and, being too weak to recover himself, fell over the side. He reappeared for a moment with outstretched arms and hands clutching towards the boat. Then he sank, to be seen no more.
Old Dominick was a-directing of her with squawks, and Ruffle Neck was just squatting over hers, batting her eyes with skeer, for all the world like she was a fine lady a-going into a faint. And there stood all four of the roosters, not a one of 'em a-turning of a feather to help her!
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