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The examination was, however, safely passed, and in due course Frederick was called to the Irish Bar, where a Queen's Counsel, with an accent like rich wine, told him that he was now a gintleman, and entitled so to call himself.
If you don't like the accommodations you're gettin' I reckon you'd better make good your talk back there and we'll see whether you takes this outfit back to San Felipe or I takes her on to Rubio City." The Irishman spat emphatically over the wheel. "An' 'tis a gintleman wid proper instincts ye are, though, as a rule, I howld ut impolite to carry a gun.
* Herb-Men of Darby's cast were often in the habit of collecting rare medicinal plants for the apothecaries; and not bad botanists some of them were. "Darby, achora," said Mrs. Reillaghan, "don't crass the gintleman, an' him sthrivin' to do his best. Here, Paddy Gormly, bring some wather till the docthor washes his hands."
"Miss Cynthia, darlin'," said Ellen, "if it was made of flint I was, wouldn't he bring the tears out of me with his wheedlin' an' coaxin'? An' him such a fine young gintleman! And whin he took to commandin' like, sure I couldn't say no to him at all at all. 'Take the card to her, Ellen, he says didn't he know me name!
There's two sorts o' marble in one quarry, an' tis grand stone it is, an' the quarries would give no ind iv imploymint to the poor men that's willin' to work. God help thim, but they're not allowed to cut a lump of stone in their own counthry. What stops them? Sure 'tis the English Government, an' what would it be else? A gintleman isn't allowed to cut a stone on his own land.
I ventured to remark to Joe that he was a civil-spoken boy, but not very prompt in carrying out instructions, and asked whether everybody in Connaught conducted himself in the same way. He at once admitted that everybody did so. "Divil the bad answer ye'll iver get, Sorr," said he. "We just say, 'I will, Sorr, and thin go away, and another gintleman says something, and ye're forgotten.
'I've listened to th' speeches here to-night with satisfaction, he says. 'I'm proud to see th' rayform wave have sthruck th' road, he says. 'Th' rascals must be dhriven fr'm th' high places, he says. 'I see befure me in a chair a gintleman who wud steal a red-hot stove an' freeze th' lid befure he got home.
"Men," he said, "you have claimed your discharge; you shall have it, if you are willing to go and take service at Roaring Water." "Sure, with the greatest pleasure in me life; there's not a finer gintleman on this side of the Atlantic than Mr Crockett," said Barney. Klitz simply gave a grunt of acquiescence. The whole matter was arranged; and they were to return with me the next day.
Sure, if a gintleman was married, his wife wouldn't be tuk off from him the way mine was." "Not so soon, maybe," said the mother, drily. "And if a gintleman brakes a horse's heart, he's only a 'bowld rider, while a poor sarvant is a 'careless blackguard' for only taking a sweat out of him.
"Now tell me, Pat, what regiment you served in," said Henry. "In the first Pennsylvanians, Captain Farrell's company." "Captain Farrell's! I knew him well, a fine fellow and a gallant officer! Many were the tears shed when the vomito carried him off," said Henry, with much feeling. "And you were one of his company?" "Troth, I was, thin. He was every inch a sodger and a gintleman."
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