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Here, Captain!" to the Lieutenant holding the flag, "it's meself should be houldin' that, and not you!" and at the word he grasped the staff out of the officer's hands and plunged still farther forward among the enemy with it, than it had before been carried by either of the bearers, coming out of the fight at last without a scratch.
One or two young men, sons of most respectable farmers for it somehow happened that the Buck was no great favorite with the seniors stood, or rather had the honor of standing, within the circle, for the purpose of "houldin' conversation wid him;" for it could not reasonably be supposed that the Buck could throw away such valuable political information and high-flown English upon mere boors, who were incapable of understanding either the one or the other.
'I was a fool to ask. Be wid him all you can. He's houldin' on to your strength. "'They call ut Locomotus attacks us, he sez, 'bekaze, sez he, 'ut attacks us like a locomotive, if ye know fwhat that manes. An' ut comes, sez he, lookin' at me, 'ut comes from bein' called Love-o'-Women. "'You're jokin', docthor, I sez. "'Jokin'! sez he.
He was standing upon his trolly, haranguing a gangman, and his shoulders were as well drilled, and his big, thick chin was as clean-shaven as ever. 'I'm a civilian now, said Mulvaney. 'Cud you tell that I was iver a martial man? Don't answer, Sorr, av you're strainin' betune a compliment an' a lie. There's no houldin' Dinah Shadd now she's got a house av her own.
"It'll save throuble, in the first place; an' sackinly, it'll save time; for, plase Goodness, I'll have everything ready for houldin' the weddin' the Monday afther the last call. By the hole o' my coat, the minute I get the clo'es we'll be spliced, an' thin for the honeymoon!" "How much money shall I give him?" said the priest.
I see her standin', wid her fair pale face pale oh, my God! wid hunger an' sickness her little thin clo'es, an' her goolden hair, tossed about by the dark blast the tears in her eyes, an' the smile, that she once had, on her face houldin' up her mouth, an' sayin' 'Kiss me agin, father; as if she knew, somehow, that I'd never see her, nor her me, any more.
"'An' what are ye houldin' your head that high for, corp'ril?" sez Judy. "Come in an' thry a cup av tay," she sez, standin' in the doorway. Bein' an ontrustable fool, an' thinkin' av anything but tay, I wint. "Mother's at canteen," sez Judy, smoothin' the hair av hers that was like red snakes, an' lookin' at me cornerways out av her green cats' eyes. "Ye will not mind, corp'ril?"
Sally Nutther, I say is well liked in the parish; an' if they get the wind o' the word, all I say 's this so sure as you're found here houldin' wrongful possession of her house an' goods, the boys iv Palmerstown, Castleknock, and Chapelizod will pay yez a visit you won't like, and duck yez in the river, or hang yez together, like a pair of common robbers, as you unquestionably are not, he added, with a sudden sense of legal liability.
There's people here that will die if they're brought outside the door. We did not, at laist the most part of all you see before you, think you had any thought of houldin' good your threat in such a time of cowld, and storm, and disolation. Look at us, sir, then, have pity on us!
Ginnell said nothing for a moment in answer to this soft impeachment, he was cutting himself a chew of tobacco; then at last he spoke: "I don't want no certifikit of character from either the pair of you," said he. "You've boned me ship and you've blacked me eye and you've near stove me ribs in sittin' on me chest and houldin' me revolver in me face; what I wants to know is your game.
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