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He drew out a number of letters and a newspaper cutting. It was a report, taken from the Belfast News Letter, of the speech which he had made at Ballymena a fortnight before. He had proclaimed the Kaiser the deliverer of Ulster. His own words stared him in the face. McMunn took the cutting and glanced at it. He thumped his fist on the table. "I stand by every word of it," he said.
He was apparently of opinion that smoking would relieve the strain on his mind. "I'm no satisfied," said McMunn. "I don't see what you have to grumble about," said Lord Dunseverick. "We've got what we came for, and we've got our clearance papers. What more do you want? You expected trouble about those papers, and there wasn't any. You ought to be pleased." "There you have it," said McMunn.
"You may say what you like about tobacco, McMunn," he said, "but it's a comfort to a man when he has no company but a bear with a sore head." "Ay," said McMunn, "you'll smoke and you'll smoke, but you'll no make me any easier in my mind by smoking." Ginty drew a plug of black tobacco from his pocket, and began cutting shreds from it with a clasp knife.
For a minute or two there was no response. Lord Dunseverick brushed some of the mud, now partially dry, off his trousers, and lit a fresh cigarette. The ground glass window was opened, and a redhaired clerk looked out. "I want to see Mr. McMunn," said Lord Dunseverick, "Mr. Andrew McMunn." The clerk put his head and shoulders out through the window, and surveyed Lord Dunseverick suspiciously.
The cold emphasis with which McMunn expressed agreement with every word of the speech made Lord Dunseverick vaguely uneasy. "Ay," said McMunn; "your speeches are well enough, and I don't say, mind you, that you're not a sound man; but I'd be better pleased if you were more serious. You're too fond of joking, in my opinion." "Good heavens!" said Lord Dunseverick.
"Perhaps," said Lord Dunseverick, "we ought not to drown him. Suppose we take him home, and hand him over to the Ulster Provisional Government?" "I wish you would," said Von Edelstein, "I am a student of human nature. I should greatly like to meet your Ulster Government." "You'll maybe not like it so much when they hang you," said McMunn, "and it's what they'll do." Mr.
"I've business with Andrew McMunn myself," said the sailor, "and I'm going that way." "Good. Then we'll go together." "My name," said the sailor, "is Ginty. If you're intimate with Andrew McMunn you'll likely have heard of me." "I haven't But that's no reason why you shouldn't show me the way." "It's no that far," said Ginty.
"I'm glad to hear it," said Lord Dunseverick. "Let's have a couple of bottles." Ginty took his pipe from his mouth and grinned pleasantly. He wanted beer. "You'll be thinking maybe," said McMunn, "that I'm going back on my temperance principles?" "We don't think anything of the sort," said Lord Dunseverick.
But I'm thinking that it wasn't to hear my opinion on the Christian religion that your lordship came here the day." McMunn, besides being a teetotaller, and opposed to the smoking of tobacco, was the president of a Young Men's Anti-Gambling League. He was, therefore, in a position to throw valuable light on the Christian religion.
"I'll join you this evening in a suit of yellow oilskins, the stickiest kind, and a blue fisherman's jersey, and a pair of sea-boots. I'll have " "You will," said McMunn, "and you'll look like a play actor. It's just what I'm complaining of." The McMunn Brothers lay, with steam up, at a single anchor a mile below the Hamburg quays. The yellow, turbid waters of the Elbe swept past her sides.
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