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"Be jabers, Terence, we shall all die of weariness with doing nothing, if we don't move soon," said Captain O'Grady; who, with Dick Ryan, had ridden over to spend the afternoon with Terence O'Connor, whose regiment of Portuguese was encamped some six miles out of Abrantes, where the division to which the Mayo Fusiliers belonged was stationed.
"Ay, be jabers!" in an exaggerated brogue; "it's the broth of a boy he is, and never a face as long as his in ould Ireland!" "Gentlemen," the Colonel said, getting in a word at last. "Gentlemen, I have been in many companies before this, and " "And by G d, you shall be in ours!" one of the revellers retorted. And "Have him in! Fetch him in!" roared a dozen voices, amid much laughter.
"Be jabers, though," argued Tim on my giving him this opinion of mine, "I can't say, sorr, as how we Christians be any the betther." "Why!" I exclaimed indignantly. "How can you say so?" "Begorra, sure we all thry to have our ray-ligion as chape as we can," replied he coolly.
When this Irish Lieutenant sat down to dinner he took a look at the soup, and recognizing in it some infinitesimal portions of the old friend of the two previous days, shoved back his plate and with flushed face ejaculated: "Be jabers I like soup; I'm fond of soup, I like soup for forty or fifty meals, but by jabers as a gineral diet I don't think much of it." We had good quarters in Plymouth.
"Ye can holler as much as ye have the moind ter. Be jabers, the next haythen Chinkee that gits out of the darbies I clap on'm 'll be a slippery, slathery eel, and meself after fergittin' to maake a knot in his taale! Come quiet, me good haythen, and I'll dale aisy wid yer."
"Be jabers, and it's glad I am to hear that same!" exclaimed Mr McCarthy, interrupting the speaker in his jubilation at not being forced to walk any more, a means of locomotion to which, from his long life at sea, the first-mate was strangely averse.
Denis took his place by his master's bedside until he saw that he was sound asleep, then taking the pannikin from the top of the knapsack he stole noiselessly out, and in two or three minutes later he returned with the pannikin full of soup, a small loaf, and a ration of wine. "By jabers," he said to himself as he sat down to eat them, "these are good quarters entirely.
'Will you? says she, an' with that she hot him another tin times as good as the first. 'By jabers, says he, slappin' himself behind, 'that's the last salute you'll ever give me, says he; 'so take my last blessin', says he, 'you ungovernable baste! says he an' with that he pulled an his hat an' walked out iv the door.
"You said just now, when you returned in the jolly-boat, that all the bows and forward parts of the vessel had been washed to pieces; and yet, of all that wreckage not a single scrap came ashore here to tell the tale before you brought the news: what do you think of that, eh!" "Be jabers, it's all that blissid current that takes it back agin!
The climax was put to the matter by the sudden rushing up on deck of Mr McCarthy, whom Captain Dinks had told to go below until the morning watch. "Be jabers, cap'en," he exclaimed, "she's druv in her starboard streeks against the rocks, and the wather is pouring in like winking. Faix, it is breaking up she'll be before were out of her, sure!"
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