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Old Pat Cleburne thought he had better put in a word to his soldiers. He says, "You hear what General Maney says, boys. If they don't take it, by the eternal God, you have got to take it!" I heard an Irishman of the "bloody Tinth," and a "darn good regiment, be jabbers," speak up, and say, "Faith, gineral, we'll take up a collection and buy you a batthery, be Jasus."
I had got almost past my own company, and there had been no general laugh, but when I passed an Irishman, named Mulcahy, I heard him whisper out loud to the man next to him, "Howly Jasus, luk at the pants."
"By Jasus, and ye may say that with your own pritty mouth," remarked another veteran, who answered to the name of Lieutenant Murphy; "for it isn't now, while we are surrounded and bediviled by the savages, that any man of the rigimint should be after talking of bating a retrate."
As he spoke, the door of the round-house was opened, and a stout man, with a lantern in his hand, presented himself at the threshold. "There's Sharples," cried Quilt. "Whist!" exclaimed Terence; "he elevates his glim. By Jasus! he's about to spake to us."
Oh, if I had as little to answer for now as he, I could die die! Sweet Jasus, an' must I die to-morrow be in the flames o' hell afore twelve o'clock? tarrible! terrible!" It was absolutely, to use his own word, "terrible," to witness the almost superhuman energy of his weakness.
Now, in troth, 'tis a great pity, quoth mine Irish host, that all this good courtship should be lost; for the young gentlewoman has been after going out of hearing of it all along. Simpleton! quoth I. So you have nothing else in Boulogne worth seeing? By Jasus! there is the finest Seminary for the Humanities There cannot be a finer; quoth I.
"Mavrone, oh! blessed Lord forgive me well I can hardly think so didn't he volunteer along wid yourself an' myself oh, sweet Jasus! what a life I lead oh, Mark Ratigan, Mark Ratigan, what will become o' me! -I swore away the lives of two innocent men I proved three alibis for three of as black villains as ever stretched a rope or charged a blunderbush!
There's where his head is there. There! Jasus Christ theyer!" You would have thought we were Italians ourselves, poor wisps of nothing, not his rescuers, but slaves, compelled to do his lordly bidding.
'You should recollect that she is a woman; though, to be sure, they are now and then very provoking, still as authoresses they can do no great harm; and I think it a pity so much good invective should have been laid out upon her, when there is such a fine field of us Jacobin gentlemen for you to work upon. The Regent himself, according to Lady Charleville's report, had said of Croker: 'D d blackguard to abuse a woman; couldn't he let her France alone, if it be all lies, and read her novels, and thank her, by Jasus, for being a good Irishwoman?
When the river lay solid he usually carried home just twice the rats Dannie had, and as he had patronized Dannie all his life, it fretted Jimmy to be behind even one day at the traps. "Be Jasus, I get tired of this!" he said. "Always and foriver the same thing. I kape goin' this trail so much that I've got a speakin' acquaintance with meself.
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