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He hesitated. "After all, Barry," he said, "I don't know. Perhaps it might you see, he did well, I really think we'd better have somebody else. The house has got its knife into Sheen too much just at present to want him as a representative. There'd only be sickness, don't you think? Who else is there?" So it came about that Menzies was chosen to uphold the house in the Fives Courts.
Finally Benson came to the side of the ship and shouted something to Menzies, who at once went on board and joined the group on the bridge. Merriman saw Benson introduce him to the others, and then apparently explain something to him. Menzies nodded as if satisfied and the conversation became general. Merriman was considerably thrilled by this new development.
You're not a bit sick at having brought an outsider a rank outsider, by Gad! into the family stud; you're not a rap ashamed at havin' disappointed the old man's hopes of you, for you know as well as I do that when you'd done sowin' your wild oats and had your fling, you'd have come in when he rang the bell and married Lady Mary Menzies.
"After some conversation on the current war news we retired, and I immediately proceeded to my room and wrote out this paper. "We were present at the interview described in the foregoing paper of Mr. Crisfield, and we certify that the substance of what passed on the occasion is in this paper, faithfully and fully given. "J. W. MENZIES, "J. J. CRITTENDEN, "R. MALLORY. "March 10, 1862."
He is dead now I shot him in the back!" "But why did he stay behind the rest?" Menzies asked suspiciously. "To light the fire!" cried Carteret. "My comrades, it is Heaven's will that we perish!" The old voyageur was right. As he spoke he pointed with one band to the loopholes. We saw a red glare spreading farther and farther across the trampled snow crust, and heard a hissing, crackling noise.
Afterwards he spake in his turn to the communicants, and distinguished the true people of God from the multitude to whom he held out no hope by so many and stringent marks, that Donald Menzies refused the Sacrament with a lamentable groan.
He should lament their refusal to accept it, but he had no designs beyond their refusal of it. "Mr. Menzies, of Kentucky, inquired if the President thought there was any power, except in the States themselves, to carry out his scheme of Emancipation? "The President replied, he thought there could not be.
In fac' it's a preevilege tae hae sic an experienced hand among us, and I wudna offend Donald Menzies for onything. But yon groanin' wes a wee thingie discomposin', and when he said, kind o' confidential, 'He's losing his grup, ma ain fouk cudna keep their coontenance.
With a gesture of despair. I turned round. "Have they all gone back?" I asked. "I think so," Menzies replied huskily. "They will rush us again directly, and fire the bedding and the wood. It's all up with us!" Crack! A gun spoke shrilly from a loophole on the right, and Baptiste's voice shouted with elation: "Bonne! bonne! another redskin! He ran out from beneath the window!
Menzies, the Scotchman, gave a roar of rage at the sight and rushed with an iron spanner at the murderers; but was met by two balls in the face which dropped him dead at their very feet.
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