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Julie and Miss Raynard were both there, with Pennell and another man from Donovan's camp. Julie wore furs and had plainly just come in, for her cheeks were glowing with exercise. Pennell was sitting next Miss Raynard, but Donovan, on a wooden camp-seat, just beyond where Julie sat in a big cushioned chair, looked out at him from almost under Julie's arm, as he bent forward.
Morrogh, his eldest, was able to bear arms, and shared in his ardour and ambition. "His first effort," says an old Chronicle, "was directed against Donovan's allies, the Danes of Limerick, and he slew Ivar their king, and two of his sons." These conspirators, foreseeing their fate, had retired into the holy isle of Scattery, but Brian slew them between "the horns of the altar."
The boys' capture by a strange tribe and subsequent escape in their Flying Ship formed thrilling portions of this story, while Dick Donovan's researches in natural history provided the boys with a lot of fun.
"Oh, damn it, Moreno, we'll be half-way to Stoneman by that time," interrupted the trooper, savagely. "Who's to know where we got the stuff? We'll make 'em believe Donovan's squad brought it in from Ceralvo's. Give me a drink now anyhow, you infernal Greaser; I'm all burnt out with such a day as this. We've got to start the moment they get back, and there won't be any time then."
"You have found it?" choked out Jack. "Yes." "Where?" "On Dick Donovan's boots." They looked at him as if they thought he had suddenly gone demented. Dick examined his boots carefully as if he expected to see money plastered all over them. The professor extended his palm. In it lay the black earth he had scraped from Dick's boots.
I'd lay ten guineas that Donovan's guns won't go off, if he tries them. Ah, I thought so a fizz, and a stink trust an Irishman." For this gallant lieutenant, slanting toward the bows of the flying bilander, which he had no hope of fore-reaching, trained his long swivel-gun upon her, and let go or rather tried to let go at her.
Donovan Pasha is a great man and a strong, effendi! We be three strong men together." Dicky Donovan's conversion to a lasting belief in Mahommed Seti came a year later. The thing happened at a little sortie from the Nile. Fielding was chief medical officer, and Dicky, for the moment, was unattached.
"Then let me send a telegram from the 'Ashborough Times' office," said Donovan to her in one of the momentary pauses. "I have sent for your cousin and Mrs. Craigie and for Brian." For the first time Erica's outward composure gave way. Her mouth began to quiver and her eyes to fill. "Oh! Thank you," she said; and there was something in her voice that went to Donovan's heart.
Gorman was unreasonably annoyed by King Konrad Karl's certainty that the Emperor would win the war and by Donovan's passive neutrality of sentiment. For Gorman neutrality in any quarrel was no doubt inconceivable.
But there were trees along the canal and reeds and grass, so that there were worse places than Donovan's camp in Le Havre. Peter found his friend surveying the endeavours of a gang of boys to construct a raised causeway from the officers' mess to the orderly-room, and he promptly broached his object. Donovan was entranced with the proposal, but he could not go. He was adamant upon it.
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