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Single blessedness was not for her, and it is due to her to say, she turned out one of the best house-wives in Chapelizod, and made the fireworker account for every shilling of his pay and other revenues, and managed the commissariat and all other departments to admiration. She cured her lord very nearly of boozing, and altogether of duelling.
Devereux, sitting near the door, luckily saw them as they entered, and announced them in a loud tone 'Lieutenant Puddock, gentlemen, and Lieutenant Fireworker O'Flaherty. For though Gipsy Devereux loved a bit of mischief, he did not relish it when quite so serious, as the Galwegian Fireworker was likely to make any sort of trifling on a point so tender as his recent hostilities on the Fifteen Acres.
It was well for Judy, that, being of the gentler sex, the wrath of the fireworker could not wreak itself upon her. The oftener he viewed himself in the pier-glass, trying in vain to think he did not look so very badly after all, the more bitter were his feelings.
'O'Flaherty Lieutenant I won't reproach you, began Puddock. 'Reproach me! an' who poisoned me, my tight little fellow? retorted the fireworker, savagely. Puddock could only look at him, and then said, quite meekly 'Well, and my dear Thir, what on earth had we better do? 'Do, said O'Flaherty, 'why isn't it completely Hobson's choice with us? What can we do but go through with it?
Then came a magnanimous, but nearly unintelligible speech from O'Flaherty, prompted by little Puddock, who, being responsible for the composition, was more nervous during the delivery of that remarkable oration, than the speaker himself; and 'thuffered indethcribably' at hearing his periods mangled; and had actually to hold O'Flaherty by the arm, and whisper in an agony 'not yet curthe it not yet' to prevent the incorrigible fireworker from stretching forth his bony red hand before he had arrived at that most effective passage which Puddock afterwards gave so well in private for Dick Devereux, beginning, 'and thus I greet
But unquestionably she did, in other ways, lead the contumacious warrior so miserable a life for some months after that, as he averred to the major, with tears in his eyes, it would have been 'more to his teeste to have been shot on the occasion. At first, of course, the fireworker showed fight, and sometimes broke loose altogether; but in the end 'his mouth was made, his paces formed, and he became a very serviceable and willing animal.
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