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"But you needn't wait for him unless you like. We've got steam up. Why not slip away?" "Because it's no my way of doing business," said McMunn, "to slip away, as you call it, without paying for what I've got I'm a man of principle." "Talking of your principles," said Lord Dunseverick, "what did you bring on board in that basket this afternoon? It looked to me like beer." "It was beer."
The counter-question may draw some valuable matter by way of answer from the original questioner. In this case the counter-question was a reasonable one. McMunn, of McMunn Brothers, Limited, was a coal merchant. Lord Dunseverick, though a peer, belonged to the north of Ireland. He understood Belfast. "What I want," he said, "is to see Mr. Andrew McMunn."
Lord Dunseverick turned to him. "Can you tell me," he said, "where Mr. McMunn's office is?" "Is it coal you're wanting?" asked the sailor. It is thus that questions are often met in Belfast with counter-questions. Belfast is a city of business men, and it is not the habit of business men to give away anything, even information, without getting something in return.
"Perhaps," said Lord Dunseverick, "we ought not to drown him. Suppose we take him home, and hand him over to the Ulster Provisional Government?" "I wish you would," said Von Edelstein, "I am a student of human nature. I should greatly like to meet your Ulster Government." "You'll maybe not like it so much when they hang you," said McMunn, "and it's what they'll do." Mr.
The redhaired clerk was a Volunteer, duly enrolled, one of the signatories of the famous Ulster Covenant Lord Dunseverick had made speeches which moved his soul to actual rapture. "Come inside, my lord," he said. "I'll inform Mr. McMunn at once." Lord Dunseverick passed through a door which was held open for him.
"You've offered an outrageous insult to loyal men," said McMunn. "A mistake," said Von Edelstein, "but surely excusable. I have in my pocket at the present moment would you be so kind as to feel in my breast pocket? You'll find some papers there, and a newspaper cutting among them." Lord Dunseverick slipped his hand into the prisoner's pocket.
Yet Lord Dunseverick, when not actually engaged in making a speech, was a pleasant and agreeable young man with a keen sense of humour. He even and this is a rare quality in men saw the humorous side of his own speeches. The trouble was that he never saw it till after he had made them. A heavy motor-lorry came thundering along the quay. Lord Dunseverick dodged it, and escaped with his life.
"I've been in business for thirty years, and it's the first time I ever had goods given me that I didn't ask for." "Well," said Lord Dunseverick, "if we've got an extra five hundred rifles we can't complain. There's plenty of men in Ulster ready to use them." "Maybe you'll tell me," said McMunn, "why they wouldn't let me pay for the goods in the office this afternoon.
Below The McMunn Brothers was an ocean-going tramp steamer. One of her crew sat on the forecastle playing the "Swanee River" on a melodeon. McMunn, Ginty, and Lord Dunseverick were together in the cabin of The McMunn Brothers. McMunn, dressed precisely as he always dressed in his office, sat bolt upright on the cabin sofa.
The ruler of Ulster was also forbidden to indulge in such superstitious practices as observing omens of birds, or drinking of a certain fountain "between two darknesses;" his prerogatives were presiding at the games of Cooley, "with the assembly of the fleet;" the right of mustering his border army in the plains of Louth; free quarters in Armagh for three nights for his troops before setting out on an expedition; and to confine his hostages in Dunseverick, a strong fortress near the Giant's Causeway.
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