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In a few minutes he galloped up to the post held by the British picket, and flung himself off his reeking steed incurring imminent risk of being bayoneted by the sentry, because he took no notice of his peremptory challenge. Bursting into the guard-room, he called for the officer of the day, Lieutenant Fitzgibbon.
Phineas was disappointed, but he took the cue from his friend too quickly to show his disappointment. And when, half an hour after their meeting, Fitzgibbon had to be reminded that his companion was not in the House during the last session, Phineas was able to make the remark as though he thought as little about the House as did the old-accustomed member himself.
"So you won't come to Moydrum again?" said Laurence Fitzgibbon to his friend. "Not this autumn, Laurence. Your father would think that I want to live there." "Bedad, it's my father would be glad to see you, and the oftener the better." "The fact is, my time is filled up." "You're not going to be one of the party at Loughlinter?" "I believe I am.
Holy Joe, now alone on that deck so far as physical backing went, turned again to the mate. But indeed he needed no physical backing; his indomitable spirit had cowed the bucko. "Your men will give you no further trouble, sir; they are at their stations," said he. It was the first time he had used the "sir." For an instant it seemed a weakening. It gave Mister Fitzgibbon the heart to bluster.
He cuffed a knowledge of English into the squareheads. But he kept his hands off Newman and me, not because he was afraid of us I don't think Lynch feared anything but because we knew our work and did it. Oh, I got mine, and with interest, in the Golden Bough, but not from Lynch. The mate was a different type. He was all brute, was Fitzgibbon, and sailors and stiffs alike caught it from him.
"My dear fellow," Laurence had said to him, "I have had Clarkson almost living in my rooms. He used to drink nearly a pint of sherry a day for me. All I looked to was that I didn't live there at the same time. If you wish it, I'll send in the sherry." This was very bad, and Phineas tried to quarrel with his friend; but he found that it was difficult to quarrel with Laurence Fitzgibbon.
The bill had been brought to him noted a month since, and then he had simply told the youth who brought it that he would see Mr. Fitzgibbon and have the matter settled. He had spoken to his friend Laurence, and Laurence had simply assured him that all should be made right in two days, or, at furthest, by the end of a week.
"No!" said Phineas. "But I have, Mr. Finn. I happened to hear what occurred that night at the door of the House of Commons." "Who told you, Miss Fitzgibbon?" "Never mind who told me. I heard it. I knew before that you had been foolish enough to help Laurence about money, and so I put two and two together. It isn't the first time I have had to do with Mr. Clarkson.
Since that last journey to county Mayo, Laurence Fitzgibbon had been his most intimate friend, but he said nothing of all this even to Laurence Fitzgibbon.
I won't say that the rest of us damned Cockney. We were, after all, foc'sle savages, and our hatred of Fitzgibbon was very bitter. But it took the stiffs to honor Cockney for that knife-play. Well, Newman might dismiss this fellow with a contemptuous word, but I couldn't. Cockney had become a rival I must reckon with.
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