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"A pritty hut, then, ye must have of it! Why do ye tolerate the vagabond? He's not fit for Christian society." "Oh! he's good company, sometimes, Mike. When you know him better, you'll like him better. Come; up with the bundles, and let us follow. The captain is looking after us, as you see." "Well may he look, to see us in sich company! Will he har-r-m the missus?" "Not he.
"He'll niver brag of his campaigns ag'in to the likes of me, seeing that I've outdone him, ten ay, forty times, and boot. Och! that Nick's a divil, and no har-r-m said!" "In the first place, O'Hearn," resumed the captain, as soon as the three were alone in the library "you must explain your own desertion." "Me! Desart!
I thank you, serjeant, for your offer and gallantry, but prudence will not permit it. We may set down Strides and his companions as so many knaves, and " "That may ye!" cried Mike's well-known voice, from the scuttle that opened into the garrets, directly in front of which the two old soldiers were conversing "That may ye, and no har-r-m done the trut', or justice, or for that matther, meself.
"There's bowels in the man's body!" cried Mike, "and it isn't the likes of him that has no falin'. Ye don't know what it is to be a father, or ye'd groan in spirit to see a child of yer own in the grip of fiery divils like them same. Isn't he a pratty man, and wouldn't I be sorrowful to hear that he had come to har-r-m?
"You mean to say that the Indians have reappeared on the rocks, and that some of Strides's men fired at them, without orders? Is that the history of the affair?" "It's jist that, majjor; and little good, or little har-r-m, did it do.
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