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There was much cheering and a great amount of pocket-handkerchief waving, which "Sir Roger" acknowledged by raising his hat and smiling that "smile of peculiar sweetness and grace" which Dr. Kenealy brought under the notice of the three judges and a special jury.
On Kenealy: made him twirl his mustache. On Fountain: filled him with dismay. There remained only one to be hoodwinked. A letter is brought in and handed to Captain Kenealy. He reads it, and looks a little a very little vexed. Nobody else notices it. Lucy. "What is the matter? Oh, what has occurred?" Kenealy. "Nothing particulaa." Lucy.
Colonel Kenealy pricked up his ears, drew his cigar from his mouth, and smelt powder "What, for action ?" said he briskly. "Where's the enemy?" Fullalove made him a signal, and they went below. Mrs. Beresford had not heard or not appreciated the remark: she prattled on till she made the mates and midshipmen shudder.
Lucy scanned his face, but it was like the outside of a copy-book, and she was on thorns. Being too late, he lost his place near her at dinner, and she could not whisper to him. However, when the ladies retired he opened the door, and Lucy let fall a word at his feet: "Come up before the rest." Acting on this order, Kenealy came up, and found Lucy playing sad tunes softly on the piano and Mrs.
If he did not contribute much to the conversation, he did not interrupt it, for the ladies talked through him as if he had been a column of red air. Sing, muse, how often Kenealy said "yaas" that afternoon; on second thoughts, don't.
There was, of course, a Conservative candidate in the field; and, rightly or wrongly, it was said that Kenealy had been brought down in his interest to split the Liberal vote. I found the doctor one night addressing a mere handful of people in a vast building which would have accommodated two or three hundred for every unit he had before him.
The quiet, the studious environment, and the freedom from certain social obligations unavoidable in more fashionable quarters, have at all times rendered residence in the several Inns peculiarly attractive to that large class in England which consists in the main of young men of good family, moderate fortune, and no particular occupation. Kenealy, counsel for the notorious Tichborne "claimant."
Colonel Kenealy and Mr. Fullalove were rival sportsmen and rival theorists. Kenealy stood out for a smooth bore and a four-ounce ball; Fullalove for a rifle of his own construction. Many a doughty argument they had, and many a bragging match; neither could convert the other.
The poor friends were shocked and sickened by this horrible piece of foresight. But Colonel Kenealy said, with tears, in his eyes, that his old friend should never be buried like a kitten. "Then you had better ask Sharpe to give me an order for a barrel of spirits," said the surgeon. "Yes, yes, for two if you like. Oh, don't die, Dodd, my poor old fellow.
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