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The O'Donahues were expected to arrive very shortly, and McShane had now a domicile fit for the reception of his old friend, who had promised to pay him a visit as soon as he arrived. Of the Austins little more can be said that has not been said already.
Our hero and his fate were a continual source of conversation between McShane and his wife; but latterly, after not having heard of him for more than five years, the subject had not been so often renewed.
"Why, that means `Go faster, and with that you hold up a larger piece of money." "Why, then, it's no use remembering Scoro at all, for Scorae will do much better; so we need not burden ourselves with the first at all. Suppose we try the effect of that last word upon our bear-skin friend who is driving!" McShane held up a rouble, and called out to the driver "Scorae!"
Never mind, keep your sweet tooth till you get to old England again; and after I tell Mrs McShane what you have done for us this day, she will allow you to walk into a leg of beef, or round a leg of mutton, or dive into a beefsteak pie, as long as you live, whether it be one hundred years more or less.
"I put a person of the name of Rushbrook in possession of a large fortune. I asked our young friend's sister whether he could be any relation; but she said no." "Young Rushbrook had no sister, I am sure," interrupted McShane. "I now recollect," continued Mr Trevor, "that this person who came into the fortune stated that he had formerly held a commission in the army."
"That's rank in heaven, but goes for nothing in Petersburg," replied McShane. "Dimitri tells me they've civil generals here, which I conceive are improvements on our staff, for devil a civil general I've had the pleasure of serving under." "What shall I do," said O'Donahue, getting up and preparing to write his note to the ambassador.
"No one goes into Kathleen's room," cried Corny O'Toole, roused by the sarcasms of Mrs McShane. "Yes, Corny," replied Mrs McShane, "it's not for a woman like me to be suspected, at all events; so you, and you only, shall go into the room, if that will content ye, Mr Jerry O'Toole." "Yes!" replied the party, and Mrs McShane opened the door.
McShane did so; and O'Donahue, after a little thought, replied, "Well, I don't know: perhaps it's all for the best; for you see I must have trusted somebody, and the difficulty would have been to know whom to trust, for everybody belongs to the police here, I believe: I think, myself, the fellow is honest; at all events, I can make it worth his while to be so."
"To be sure I do your best soldier, and a famous caterer he was at all times." "It is his son." "And, now I think of it, he's very like him, only somewhat better-looking." O'Donahue then acquainted McShane with the circumstances attending his meeting with Joey, and they separated.
In the meantime the wolves had left the piece of cloth behind them, and were coming up fast with the carriage. "We must fire on them now, sir," said the courier, going back to his seat, "or they will tear the flanks of the horses." McShane and Joey seized their guns, the headmost wolf was now nearly ahead of the carriage; Joey fired, and the animal rolled over in the snow.
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