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"Masther," said the farmer, "many a sthrange accident you met wid on yer thravels through Munsther?" "No doubt of that, Mr. Lanigan. I and another boy thravelled it in society together. One day we were walking towards a gintleman's house on the road side, and it happened that we met the owner of it in the vicinity, although we didn't know him to be such.
"Most sincerely do I thank you, Lanigan; he will arrange with you when and where to see me again. Farewell, Reilly farewell; rely upon my constancy;" and so they parted, Reilly to the kitchen, and the Cooleen Bawn to her own room. "Come into the pantry, poor man," said good-natured Lanigan, addressing our hero, "till I give you' something to eat and drink."
If the tomcat don't know enough to come down all by himself, leave him be up there till the doctor tells us we can be out and about." Weisner put his demand again and Mulcahy made the affair a vociferous duet; other men were on their feet, shouting. But a top sergeant has a voice of his own and a manner to go with the voice: Lanigan yelled the chorus into silence.
Commander Lanigan, standing above them on a marble rail, his figure outlined against a pergola column, did his best to put some of his emotions into speech. He shouted, "Some night-blooming cereus, I'll tell the world!" The great doors swung open slowly. They remained open. Now curiosity replaced astonishment and held the rioters in their tracks; their mouths were wide, the voices mute.
She therefore determined to turn aside from her plans of exile, to let the child's nurse stay where she pleased, to give no further thought to Lanigan Beam, and to devote all her energies to capturing Mr. Tippengray. She believed that she had been upon the point of doing this before the arrival of intruders on the scene, and she did not doubt that she could reach that point again.
"And then I heard that, although you were a wild and irresponsible youth, people generally expected that as you grew older you would gradually accumulate ballast; but instead of that you had steadily gone downhill from the moment of your birth." "Now, then," said Lanigan, "I suppose I have no right to ask you, but I would like very much to know who said that."
What makes you in such an everlastin' hurry, driven away like one ravin' distracted mad? 'A sick visit, says he; 'poor Pat Lanigan him that you mind to Bradore Lake well he's near about at the p'int of death. 'I guess not, said I, 'for I jist heerd tell he was dead. Well, that brought him up all standin', and he 'bouts ship in a jiffy, and walks a little way with me, and we got a-talkin' about this very subject.
He was interested in what he had heard of the stock of goods which was being sold off about as fast as a glacier moves, and was glad to have the opportunity to look about him. "Do you know, Calthy," said Lanigan, "that you ought to sell Mr. Lodloe a bill of goods?" He said this partly because of his own love of teasing, but partly in earnest.
She had not yet met Lanigan Beam, and it would be well if he should be made to feel that she looked upon him merely as an old companion, and cared for him neither more nor less than one cares for ordinary old companions. Thus he would feel perfectly free to carry out his own impulses and her desires. Towards Mr. Tippengray she had decided to soften.
There were many men on the stairs leading up to the hall, and the elbowing throng at the door of the auditorium furnished further evidence of the overflowing nature of the gathering. "Gangway!" commanded Lanigan at the top of his voice. "Make way, there!
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