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Emerging at Scollay Square, and walking a few blocks, they came to a window where guns, revolvers, and fishing tackle were displayed, and on which was painted the name, "Timothy Mulally." Mr. Tiernan entered. "Is Tim in?" he inquired of one of the clerks, who nodded his head towards the rear of the store, where a middle-aged, grey-haired Irishman was seated at a desk under a drop light.
It was only by the unexpected promptitude of the move that Charles and his little Court were saved from possible delays which Spain could, under the guise of punctilious courtesy, have interposed. Hyde had sure information from an Irishman, then in Cardenas's employment, that such a design was on foot.
Far be it from me to underrate the sufferings of the Irish people. They have been long oppressed; and the same heart that prompts me to plead the cause of the American bondman, makes it impossible for me not to sympathize with the oppressed of all lands. Yet I must say that there is no analogy between the two cases. The Irishman is poor, but he is not a slave.
Durst I address a person who was under a vow of silence? Clearly not. But drawing near, I doffed my cap to him with a far-away superstitious reverence. He nodded back, and cheerfully addressed me. Was I going to the monastery? Who was I? An Englishman? Ah, an Irishman, then? "No," I said, "a Scotsman." A Scotsman? Ah, he had never seen a Scotsman before.
So it was left to McTurk to sum up the situation beneath the guns of the enemy. "You see," said the Irishman, hanging on the banister, "he begins by bullying little chaps; then he bullies the big chaps; then he bullies some one who isn't connected with the College, and then catches it. Serves him jolly well right... I beg your pardon, sir. I didn't see you were coming down the staircase."
"Them afraid," answered Serato. "Them say devil in tunnel eat um up! No go in." "They won't go in, eh?" cried Tim Sullivan. "Well, they will thot! If there's a divil inside there's a worse one outside, an' thot's me! Git in there now, ye black-livered spalapeens!" and catching up a big club the Irishman made a rush for the hesitating laborers.
"Your excellency is unwell?" asked Jansoulet, in a tone of interest which, I swear to you, had no affectation about it. "No a little weakness. I am rather anaemic wanting blood; but Jenkins is going to put me right. Aren't you, Jenkins?" The Irishman, who had not been listening, made a vague gesture. "Tonnerre! And here am I with only too much of it."
"Fling a coil uv line here," continued the speaker. "This fag ind is no good, at all at all." The thud of a falling rope, and various grunts and comments from the Irishman, showed that the barge was being secured. Still the three waited.
In fact, he didn't last more than about three weeks. He had started too late in life to learn the arts of the traveling man." "You bet," said the wall paper man who had heard this story. "Attention is the whole cheese. I know I once tried my hardest to get hold of an old Irishman down in Texas. He was a jolly old chap but I couldn't get next.
"'It manes that you're the pulse of my heart, avourneen, plase your ladyship's Reverence, says Jack. "'Yes, she replied, 'cushla machree; well, as I can pronounce it, acushla machree, will you come in to your breakfast? said the darling, giving Jack a smile that would be enough, any day, to do up the heart of an Irishman.
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