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This meritorious officer destroyed, with his own hand, four of the largest and most ferocious animals, and the rest, awed by the indomitable majesty of BRITISH VALOR, shrank back to their dens. Thomas Higgory, a private, and Runty Goss, havildar, were the only two who remained out of the nine hundred who followed Lieutenant Gahagan.
I respect my commander, I esteem your excellent and beauteous mother; tell me, before I leave you, if I may hope for a return of my affection. Say that you love me, and I will do such deeds in this coming war as shall make you proud of the name of your Gahagan." The old woman, as I delivered these touching words, stared, snapped, and ground her teeth, like an enraged monkey.
Such are the uncertainties of war! To strap on my sabre and my accoutrements to mount my Arab charger to drink off what O'Gawler had left of the sangaree and to gallop to the General, was the work of a moment. I found him as comfortably at tiffin as if he were at his own house in London. "The enemy psha! Mr. Gahagan, the enemy is on the other side of the river."
'Gahagan, wrote he, 'to be a subaltern is evidently not your fate- -YOU WERE BORN FOR COMMAND; but Lake and General Wellesley are good officers, they cannot be turned out I must make a post for you. What say you, my dear fellow, to a corps of IRREGULAR HORSE?
"Woman," said I, taking off my helmet, and removing the chain cape which had covered almost the whole of my face "I AM NOT THY HUSBAND I am the slayer of elephants, the world-renowned GAHAGAN!" "Wretch!" said she, "what wouldst thou?" "You black-faced fiend," said I, "raise but your voice, and you are dead!" "And afterwards," said she, "do you suppose that YOU can escape?
"Warum denn?" said I, quite astonished at her R-l H- ss's question. The P-cess then spoke of some trifle from my pen, which was simply signed Goliah Gahagan. There was, unluckily, a dead silence as H.R.H. put this question. "Comment donc?" said H.M. Lo-is Ph-l-ppe, looking gravely at Count Mole; "le cher Major a quitte l'armee! Nicolas donc sera maitre de l'Inde!" H. M- and the Pr.
Orlandini, who, hearing that they were going to pay a visit to the nuns, offered to accompany them. Gahagan helped out the Countess and Mme. Orlandini, who rapidly ran up the flight of steps leading to the convent door; he then offered his arm to Charles Edward, whose legs were disabled by dropsy.
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