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Updated: May 13, 2025
"An' what have I done, Miss Shadd," sez I, very bould, plantin' mesilf forninst her, "that ye should not pass the time of day?" "Ye've half-killed rough-rider Dempsey," sez she, her dear blue eyes fillin' up. "May be," sez I. "Was he a friend av yours that saw ye home four times in the fortnight?" "Yes," sez she, but her mouth was down at the corners. "An' an' what's that to you?" she sez.
In your absence I was responsible for everyt'ing here, and the mornin' ye wint awaa I took a quick invintery, sorr, of the removables," he answered, fingering his cap nervously. "That's how it was, sorr, and thim twinty-foor segyars was lyin' there in the box forninst me eyes." "And how do you account for the removal of these removables, as you call them, Barney?" I asked, looking coldly at him.
"Well, sor," he declared, "I had me hyphen wit' me whin I shipped; as late as yestherd'y afthernoon 'twas in good worrkin' ordher; but what wit' the exertion av chasin' our Gerrman crew round the decks, faith I've lost me hyphen, an' I'm thinkin' the skipper's lost his too. That's him forninst ye. For the prisent he's in dhrydock awaitin' repairs, which leaves me in command av the ship.
"And will you be for the turn-out, then, with the rest of them? Ay, I'll say a prayer for you, And and, young man, will you mind this? When you're killing with your pike and your gun, even if it's a yeo that's forninst you, gie a thought to the woman that's waiting at home for him, and, maybe, praying. What would hinder her to pray for her husband even if he's a yeoman itself?"
Thin she stood huddled forninst th' deck-house, an' Garnett started forward to th' men at work stevin' th' last av th' cargo. "All av a sudden like I saw her raise her face an' spit a button from her mouth. Her eyes ware starin' an' lookin' at th' hill away off t' th' eastward av th' town an' beyant to th' great southern mountings av th' Andes range.
'O, wirra, wirra, but afther this night I'll never be out mylone again. I shall always think that I see him forninst me, as I met him beyant, the night. "'Met Matthew Collins? The gossoon's crazy, said the priest. "'The young devil is lying, more likely. The dead don't come back to frighten honest folk, who want only their own, said Peter, scornfully.
"Pluck to the back-bone," said Goggins. "Well, he tuk the purses aff both o' them; and just as he was goin' on afther doin' the same, what should appear on the road before him, but two other travellers coming up forninst him.
Hotchkiss," he said, "I I'm sorry if I have been offensive. I thought when you came in, that, like the Irishman and the government, you were 'forninst' us. If you will put those cheerful relics out of sight somewhere, I should be glad to have you dine with me at the Incubator." The strength of this was lost on Hotchkiss, but the invitation was clear.
"Well, Jack, dear, between the joke and the kiss, I think I'd go out of the world better satisfied with the kiss; at all events, it wouldn't be dacent to say less with so many red lips forninst me," and Barney winked untold admiration at the laughing group before him, all plainly delighted with his conquest of the captain. "But, Barney, you should be thinking of more serious things."
"Why, you see, sir, the sun, God bless it, rises in the aist, and sets in the west, which stands to raison; and whin you stand bechuxt the aist and the west, the north is forninst you." "And when the north is fornenst you, as you say, is the east on your right or your left hand?" "On the right hand, your honor." "Well, I see you know that much, however.
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