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"A hundred, seventy-two." "And the contract was for one-fifty. What's in the odd twenty-two? Tell me that." "Pianos," said Lord Dunseverick. "Look at your clearance papers. 'Nature of Cargo Pianos." "You'd have your joke," said McMunn, "if the flames of hell were scorching the soles of your boots." "It's peculiar," said Ginty. "It's more than peculiar," said McMunn.
It would be queer if I didn't, seeing that I've sailed his ships this ten year. Andrew McMunn will go to heaven." "Ah," said Lord Dunseverick, "he's a good man, then?" "I'll no go so far as to say precisely that," said Ginty, "but he's a man who never touches a drop of whisky nor smokes a pipe of tobacco. It'll be very hard on him if he doesna go to heaven after all he's missed in this world.
"We think that foreign travel has widened your principles out a bit That's what we think, isn't it, Ginty?" "My principles are what they always were," said McMunn, "but I've some small share of commonsense. I know there's a foreigner coming on board the night, a baron and a dissipated man " "Come, now," said Lord Dunseverick, "you can't be sure that Von Edelstein is dissipated.
The casual observer would, in this case, have been mistaken. Lord Dunseverick, in spite of his well-fitting clothes, his delicately coloured tie, and his general air of sleek well-being, was at that moment it was the month of May, 1914 something of a hero with the Belfast working man.
He left it to be understood that his opinion of barons in general was not improved by his acquaintance with Lord Dunseverick. "I don't think we need bother about Von Eddstein, anyway," said Lord Dunseverick. "What harm can he do us?" "I'm no precisely bothering about him," said McMunn; "but I'd be easier in my mind if I knew what he wanted with us."
Soon The McMunn Brothers was under way. Lord Dunseverick looked at the prostrate Von Edelstein. "What are we going to do with him?" he asked. "Drown him," said McMunn. A trickle of blood was running down Von Edelstein's chin. He spat out some fragments of broken teeth. "It appears," he said, "that I have made a mistake about your intentions."
Lord Dunseverick, who had a side of the table to himself, leaned far back. His legs were stretched out straight in front of him. His hands were in his pockets. He gazed wearily at the small lamp which swung from the cabin roof. For a long time no one spoke. It was Lord Dunseverick who broke the silence in the end. He took his cigarette-case from his pocket.
You've never met him." "He's a foreigner and a baron," said McMunn, "and that's enough for me, forbye that he's coming here under very suspicious circumstances. If I can get the better of him by means of strong drink and the snare of alcoholic liquors " "Good Lord!" said Lord Dunseverick.
"I'm glad to hear it," said Lord Dunseverick. "Let's have a couple of bottles." Ginty took his pipe from his mouth and grinned pleasantly. He wanted beer. "You'll be thinking maybe," said McMunn, "that I'm going back on my temperance principles?" "We don't think anything of the sort," said Lord Dunseverick.
His eyes were fixed, with strong disapproval, on the cigarette, which still smoked feebly in Lord Dunseverick's hand. "Your clerk gave me a hint," said Dunseverick, "that you object to tobacco."
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