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Yes, he had a bit of a brain, when he was sober and of a mind to use it." One would scarcely have supposed that Archibald McBride, silent, taciturn, money-loving, possessed the taste for scandal that North knew he did possess. The old merchant continued garrulously. "They are a bad lot, John, those Langhams, but it took the smartest one of the whole tribe to get the better of me.
As we said before, it was a sad day for Kentucky, and threw the land into mourning and gloom. Colonels Todd and Trigg, and Majors Harlan and McBride, were men beloved and respected in life, and bitterly lamented in death by a long list of true-hearted friends.
"Finely," says I; "you will be seeing her with the daylight." "Man, I will have been needing that word," says he. "What am I to be calling ye, man?" "Hooch," says he, and his words were sharper and fiercer than of yore. "My father's rank will be good enough for me, but ye will call me Dan McBride and naething else. Major I was in the Low Countries, and the warrant's in my saddle-bags," says he.
He came there in a privateer Captain Cook, I think, was master of her, Bryde McBride mate lieutenant, the crew would be saying, for the schooner carried letters o' marque a fast ship and well found; the Spray was the name of her." "And Bryde McBride had you speech with him?" "I had that ay, we yarned for long and long, him in his fine clothes an' all, and very pressing with the rum.
During the same summer, he built and put in operation a copper smelting and refining works, under the firm name of J. G. Hussey & Co., engaging at the same time in the produce commission business, under the firm name of Hussey & Sinclair, which afterwards changed to Hussey & McBride. It is a matter of fact, on which Mr.
Can't you find a sate for her, any of yees? Here's a stool give it her, Randal. Oh, bounce your forehead, Randal truth must out; you've put it to the test, sir. Randal. I desire no other for her or myself. Catty. I'd pity you, Honor, myself, only I know you a McBride and know you're desaving me, and all present. Mr. Carv. Call that other witness I allude to, clerk, into our presence without delay.
But I would be holding my steel in my hand, and we sat and watched, the dogs and me." "Was it the skein-dubh you would be holding?" "It would not be the black knife, Dan McBride; it would just be this."
"I am hoping you are not close-hauled for time," says he, "for it's hard to come at my tale, Mr Hamish; but ye see, Dan McBride had some notion o' what might occur I am thinking ye will see with me there. "I am giving you the man's words, ye see, for he had great faith in ye.
Catty. Then I'll run down and stop it and catch 'em. Pat. Catty. Nick Flaherty's, the publican's? oh, the sinners! And this is the saint that Honor McBride would be passing herself upon us for? And all the edication she got at Mrs. Carver's Sunday school! Oh, this comes of being better than one's neighbours! A fine thing to tell Mrs.
North, from where he sat, was able to recognize a number of these as letters which he had intended to destroy that last night in his rooms; but the refuse from his grate and the McBride murder still seemed poles apart; he could imagine no possible connection. The president of Mount Hope's first national bank was the next witness called.
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