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"That was so, yer honour, and now you are a man and an officer, it is natural it should be different." "Tim Hoolan, you are a humbug," Terence said, laughing. "Sorra a bit of one, yer honour. I am not saying that you won't grow a bit more; everyone says what a fine man you will make.
A couple of dazzling white waistcoats stepped out of the cab. Warrington laughed. "You see Bacon has his dinner-party too. That is Dr. Slocum, author of 'Memoirs of the Poisoners. You would hardly have recognised our friend Hoolan in that gallant white waistcoat. Doolan is one of Bungay's men, and faith, here he comes." Indeed, Messrs.
I think that we had better tell off two of the men as cooks. I don't think it is likely that they will be able to get much done that way below. Hoolan and another will do." "I should think it best to keep Hoolan as forager; he is rather a genius in that capacity.
Tim Hoolan had been very successful in a foraging expedition, and had brought in a goose and four ducks, and had persuaded the landlord's nieces to let him and the cook have sole possession of the kitchen. The banquet was a great success, but the majority of those present did not sit very long afterwards. The colonel set the example of rising early.
O'Grady had got the bung out of the barrel and filled the five drinking vessels, and the wine was pronounced to be very fair. One by one the other officers dropped in, and Hoolan was for an hour kept busy. The major, who spoke a little Spanish, went down and returned with a dozen bottles of spirits, two or three of which were opened and the contents consumed.
"Your supeyrior officer!" O'Grady murmured. "My superior officer, certainly," Terence went on, with a smile; "but who, having, as he says, never looked at a map since he left school while I have naturally studied one every evening since we started from Torres Vedras can therefore know no more about the situation than does Tim Hoolan.
"I will go see this heathen chief, and try again if by God's grace his heart may be softened." I undertook to get Pat Hoolan out of the way, as it was evident that all his influence was exerted to prevent his master from becoming a Christian.
"But I thought, friend Hoolan, you said that you were a Christian," I remarked quietly, looking fixedly at him. "So I am inwardly, of course, mate," he answered, with a wink he could not suppress.
The missionaries told us news which we know to be good, and we have believed them. When the priests you speak of come, will they tell us better?" Hoolan had nothing to say; he soon got calm again, and observed, as he turned on his heel, "Well, I only hope that you'll be after getting on as well under your new system as you did under mine, that's all." The king made no reply.
Terence left this part of the work to Hoolan, who, by bringing up a number of plates and ranging them on the table, getting down a ham and cutting it into slices, and by pointing to the wine-skins, managed to acquaint the landlord with what was required.
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