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There followed a long silence, during which we went farther and farther off the road. "Jake," said the judge, "whose house is that we just passed?" "It's that new Irishman's," said I. "Mike Cosgrove, ain't that his name?" "Well, then," said the judge, "we're off the road. Stop!" "Yes," I said, "I made the wrong turn back there. It's only a little farther."
The blue-and-silver garden, like a scene in a theatre, seemed to taunt him with all that tyrannic tenderness against which his worldly authority was at war. The length and grace of the Irishman's stride enraged him as if he were a rival instead of a father; the moonlight maddened him.
"If you mean a bad one, come home," the Colonel rejoined, taking the lad good-humouredly he was not blind to the flush of indignation which dyed Flavia's cheeks "I'll take the wit for welcome. To be sure, to die in Ireland is an Irishman's hope, all the world over." "True for you, Colonel!" Uncle Ulick said.
I saw yer flippers touchin' van another, an' somethin' slippin' in betwane them. I couldn't tell phwat it was, but, by Jaysus! I thought it quare for all that. I know now phwhat it was, it was the button." The Irishman's arguments merited attention; and received it. The circumstances looked at the least suspicious against Le Gros. To the majority they were conclusive of his guilt.
And since the poor devil must have one enjoyment, and society has shut him out of all others, he betakes himself to the drinking of spirits. Drink is the only thing which makes the Irishman's life worth having, drink and his cheery care-free temperament; so he revels in drink to the point of the most bestial drunkenness.
When the spirit is on him he would escape by a ladder of dead men, and wade through that sea if it were made of blood." "Is that the real reason of your pious alarms?" asked Wilson, with a slight sneer. The Irishman's pale face blackened with a new passion. "I have faced as many murderers in County Clare as you ever fought with in Clapham Junction, Mr. Cockney," he said.
These points we must put as Paul did his sermons-with force and ingenuity. As for the low Irish, all we have to do is to crib them, feed and pickle them in whiskey for a week. To gain an Irishman's generosity, you cannot use a better instrument than meat, drink, and blarney. I often contemplate these fellows when I am passing sentence upon them for crime." "True!
Had he been reflectively inclined, he might, too, have found himself compelled to adopt a rather low estimate of the credibility of English witnesses, when they get an opportunity of swearing away an Irishman's life.
He had been astonished almost beyond words at that sudden and unlooked-for breakdown of the other man's impregnable reserve, and dimly he realized that it must have come out of some very extraordinary nervous strain, but he himself had been in no state to give the Irishman's words the attention and thought that he would have given them at another time.
He looked up swiftly into his parent's steady visage. "Father!" he cried in tones that merged half with the wind, half with the sea, "it is his voice! Chiron calls !" His eyes shone like stars, his young face was alight with joy and passion. "Go, father, you, or " He stopped an instant, catching the Irishman's eyes upon his own across the form between them.
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