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Dangerfield, cried Dominick, throwing open the door; and that elderly and ill-starred wooer glided in thereat. 'Madam, your most humble servant. 'Oh! Mr. Dangerfield? You're very welcome, Sir, said Aunt Becky, with a grand courtesy, and extending her thin jewelled hand, which he took gallantly, with another bow, and a smile, and a flash from his spectacles.
Naked, they suggested a lot of rats in a trap Dominick jeering at them and anticipating the pleasure of watching me torment them. I choked back the surge of repulsion and said to Roebuck: "Then where shall I sit?" Roebuck looked, almost wildly, toward the foot of the table. He longed to have me as far from him as possible.
Dominick looked at him, said in a voice that would have flared even the warm ashes of manhood into a furious blaze: "Go and shake hands with Senator Sayler, Croffut, and sit down." Croffut advanced, smiling. "I am fit for my company," thought I as I let him clasp my hand. "Better tilt Granby's ghost out of that chair, Croffut," said Dominick, as the ex-Senator was seating himself.
The agent himself soon arrived, as did several other gentlemen, the Colonel's friends, who knew the people and could speak to their character. The first man called was Dominick M'Evoy. No sooner was his name uttered, than a mild, poor-looking man, rather advanced in years, came forward. "I beg your pardon, Colonel," said Carson, "here is some mistake; this man is not one of your tenants.
Otto arrived triumphantly at the golden cave almost at the same moment with his brother, and they both laid their axes at the feet of the queen. "Thanks, my trusty vassals," she said; "I knew you would both succeed, and had prepared a royal feast against your return." "To which I have brought a royal appetite, your majesty," said Otto. "In truth so have I," added Dominick.
Wait till them that's young an' hearty now, harrows as much as I ploughed in my day, an' they won't have much to brag of. Why, thin, but yer Reverence stands it bravely faix, wondherfully itself the Lord be praised! an' it warms my own heart to see you look so well." "Thank you, Dominick. Indeed, my health, God be thanked, is very good.
'And here we are, Lily dear, on our way to see poor dear Pat Doolan, who, I fear, is not very long for this world. Dominick! he's got a brain fever, my dear. The doctor said 'pish! inaudibly, and Aunt Becky went on. 'You know the unhappy creature is only just out of prison, and if ever mortal suffered unjustly, he's the man.
In the midst of those times of trial, when she had ceased to smile, for she had none of that hypocritical cheerfulness which depresses and is a mere vanity to make silly onlookers cry "Brave!" when there is no true bravery, just when we were at our lowest ebb, came an offer from Bill Dominick to put me into politics. I had been interested in politics ever since I was seven years old.
Locket took decidedly too many things for granted, and the explorer of Sir Dominick Ferrand's irregularities remembered afresh how clear he had been after all about his indisposition to traffic in them.
I have much more to say to you, but my two good Friends and Neighbours, Dominick and Slyboots, are just come in, and the Coffee's ready. I am, in the mean time, Mr. Your Admirer, and Humble Servant, Abraham Froth. You may observe the Turn of their Minds tends only to Novelty, and not Satisfaction in any thing.
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