Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 13, 2025
"But you needn't wait for him unless you like. We've got steam up. Why not slip away?" "Because it's no my way of doing business," said McMunn, "to slip away, as you call it, without paying for what I've got I'm a man of principle." "Talking of your principles," said Lord Dunseverick, "what did you bring on board in that basket this afternoon? It looked to me like beer." "It was beer."
"A hundred, seventy-two." "And the contract was for one-fifty. What's in the odd twenty-two? Tell me that." "Pianos," said Lord Dunseverick. "Look at your clearance papers. 'Nature of Cargo Pianos." "You'd have your joke," said McMunn, "if the flames of hell were scorching the soles of your boots." "It's peculiar," said Ginty. "It's more than peculiar," said McMunn.
"Gentlemen," said Von Edelstein, "something that will be of great value to you machine guns." "We didn't order them," said McMunn, "and I'm not going to pay for them."
"This baron," he said, "whoever he is, intends to pay his respects to us before we leave Hamburg. Very civil of him." "It's a civility we could do without. When I'm doing business I'd rather do it with business men, and a baron, you'll understand, is no just " "I'm a baron myself," said Lord Dunseverick. "Ay, you are." McMunn said no more.
He left it to be understood that his opinion of barons in general was not improved by his acquaintance with Lord Dunseverick. "I don't think we need bother about Von Eddstein, anyway," said Lord Dunseverick. "What harm can he do us?" "I'm no precisely bothering about him," said McMunn; "but I'd be easier in my mind if I knew what he wanted with us."
"According to all the laws of nature there ought to have been trouble. With a cargo like ours there ought to have been a lot of trouble. Instead of that the papers are handed over to us without a question." "It's peculiar," said Ginty. "It's very peculiar, and that's a fact." "Then there's the matter of those extra cases," said McMunn. "How many cases is there in the hold, Ginty?"
Below The McMunn Brothers was an ocean-going tramp steamer. One of her crew sat on the forecastle playing the "Swanee River" on a melodeon. McMunn, Ginty, and Lord Dunseverick were together in the cabin of The McMunn Brothers. McMunn, dressed precisely as he always dressed in his office, sat bolt upright on the cabin sofa.
"I don't call myself that," said Lord Dunseverick. "As a matter of fact, my rank is not officially recognized, in England, I mean." "Ah, but here we recognize it I assure you, general, we regard the Ulster Volunteers as a properly constituted military force." McMunn had been groping in a locker behind him. He interrupted Von Edelstein by setting a basket on the table. "Beer," he said.
"Quit it," said McMunn. "Quit it when I tell you. You cannot kill the man with your naked fists, and you'll break the furniture." Ginty drew a long coil of rope from a locker. He tied up Von Edelstein and laid him, a helpless figure, on the table. "It's my opinion," said McMunn, "that we'd better be getting out to sea." "I'm thinking the same," said Ginty. He went on deck.
The redhaired clerk was a Volunteer, duly enrolled, one of the signatories of the famous Ulster Covenant Lord Dunseverick had made speeches which moved his soul to actual rapture. "Come inside, my lord," he said. "I'll inform Mr. McMunn at once." Lord Dunseverick passed through a door which was held open for him.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking