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"To disgrace me afore the officers," said Corporal O'Flynn, "and I fairly responsible for ye! I larned ye all ye know and for ye to show the leftenant how little 'tis! Ye've got to quit that way of loading with ca'tridge with as many motions as an old jontleman feeling for his snuff-box! I'm fairly responsible for yez. I'm yer sponsor in this business.
Both men listened intently, and from the river bank they heard the steady, lumbering creak as of heavy wagon wheels. "Am I right, leftenant?" demanded the frontiersman, when the sounds had come to an end. "You are, Poke; do you know what it was?" "Can't say exactly." "It was the creaking of artillery wheels." "Whoopee! Then they must be comin' over fer fair!" "Yes. I will report at once."
I reckon, if I may say so, shadders is my specialty, me bein' somethin' o' a night owl. As shore as I'm standin' here, leftenant, and as shore as you're settin' there on your hoss, a mounted man come to the edge of that wood an' stayed thar a while, watchin' us. I'd have follered him, but I couldn't leave my beat here, an' you're the first officer I've saw since.
Well, jist as I had done, in walks the porter's first leftenant; and sais he, 'Mr. Tact will see you, Sir. "'He come plaguy near not seein' of me, then, sais I; 'for I had jist commenced makin' tracks as you come in. The next time he sends for me, tell him not to send till he is ready, will you? For it's a rule o' mine to tag arter no man.
The girl swore for their innocence. "As for Miss Lucy, she haven't a bit of art in her, nor have he." "They're all nature, I suppose," said Adrian. "How is it I don't see her at church?" "She's Catholic, or some think," said Molly. "Her father was, and a leftenant. She've a Cross in her bedroom. She don't go to church.
We had barely completed this work when Mahoney came out into the hall, his head bound up with a blood-soaked rag. "A foine, lively shindy, Leftenant," he said, grinning amiably. "Bedad, but Oi thought they had us that last toime Oi did that." He glanced about curiously. "An' ye must hav' had it hot in here too." "It was hand to hand, Sergeant, and we lost some men four dead.
Let's make the fellers cough up furst, an' then, if we think best, we kin hang 'em afterwards. It's my vote we let the leftenant tackle the job what do yer say?" The rise and fall of voices, although punctuated by oaths, and indistinct in expression, seemed generally to signify assent. The faces of the men, as they pushed and crowded about us, remained angry and resentful.
Much good it will do him. For, look you, good leftenant, the Belle Helène will not stop to send any man ashore for baseball scores. Such was not the practise of the old buccaneers, nor shall it be ours; whereas, no matter what the haste, yon varlet could in nowise refrain from that same folly which hath lost him his ship to us. Each hour will only widen the gap between us.
"What are ye sittin' there for, ye old idiot?" said he savagely. "I do b'lieve ye've larned to sleep on the donkey. Ha! there's two of ye together, an' the wooden one's the best. Wouldn't I just like to be yer leftenant, my boy? an' I'd come to know why you don't go on your beat.
Without giving his courage time to cool, the young fellow dashed across the hallway to the office where the commissary and squire were sitting, and announced: "News, Mr. Meredith. Leftenant Hennion is alive, for his name was on the rebel lists of prisoners to be exchanged." "Oddsbodikins!" ejaculated the squire. "Here 's an upset, Clowes, to all our talk."
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