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Men began to fall again in the ranks or to drop out of them wounded. Of all this Waldron took no further note than to ride hastily to the brow of the ridge and look for his own artillery. "See how he attinds to iverything himself," said Major Gahogan, who had cantered up to the side of Fitz Hugh. "It's just a matther of plain business, an' he looks after it loike a business man.
Are ye safe inside, Mrs Massey, honey?" inquired one of the men from the outside. "And where else should I be?" answered the widow, recognising the voice and going to the door. Owen felt very uncomfortable, for he fully expected that inquiries would be made for the fugitive. "Shure, it's no matther at all, thin," exclaimed the man.
I can tell yez you'll find this good, the divil a doubt of it; be the same token, that I stole it from my father's Christmas dhrink; but no matther for that I hope we'll never do worse. So, as I was sayin', you must bear me out as well as you can, when I'm brought before the Dilegates to-morrow, for challengin' and strikin' a brother.* But, I think, you'll stand by me, boys?"
'Tis a Solomon av a rig'lation, is that. I wud like to be inthroduced to the man that made ut. 'Tis easier to get colts from a Kibbereen horse-fair into Galway than to take a bad draf' over ten miles av country. Consiquintly that rig'lation for fear that the men wud be hurt by the little orf'cer bhoy. No matther.
'I'm surprised a man iv ye'er intilligence 'd thry to dhrag in exthranyous matther, whin th' honor iv th' ar-rmy is at stake. Gin'ral Merceer, stand beside this witness. Now both speak at wanst! Annybody else that has annything to say, lave him say it now, so it won't be heard.
'I hope I have made th' matther clear to ye, he says, 'an', with these few remarks, he says, 'I will tur-rn th' job over to destiny, he says, 'which is sure to lead us iver on an' on, an' back an' forth, a united an' happy people, livin', he says, 'undher an administhration that, thanks to our worthy Prisidint an' his cap-ble an' earnest advisers, is second to none, he says."
But in any evint, even the worst, ye have a frind in us constant, tinder, an' thrue; in any evint, no matther what, moind ye, I won't forgit. Niver, niver! I'll be thrue to me word. Permit us to laymint that we had not met ye befoor the late that is, befoor John Russell obtained this hand. Nay, dhrop not that beaucheous head, fair one. Let the r'y'l eye gaze on those charrums.
"I know that," said M'Cormick; "but how an ever, if you come down wid me that far, I'll conthrive to get in somehow, widout wakenin' them." "The dickens you will! How, the sarra, man?" "No matther, I will; an' you see," he added, pulling out a flask of spirits, "I'm not goin' impty-handed." "Phew!" exclaimed Duffy, "is it there you are? oh, that indeed!
"To the diouol you pitch What do you fly at me for?" "Who's flyin' at you? They'd have little tow on their rock that 'ud fly at you." "You are flyin' at me; an' only you have a hard face, you wouldn't do it." "A hard face! Indeed it's well come over wid us, to be tould that by the likes o' you! ha!" "No matther for that!
Indeed, the cold every instant became more intense, while the snow fell more thickly. "Faix, and it's moighty loike a shower of penknives, mixed with needles and pins!" cried Mike. "It's a hard matther to keep the eyes open. What will we be afther doing, Mr Mark, if it gets worse?" "We'll go on till it does get worse," said Uncle Mark. "It would not do to turn back now."
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