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In a week I'll have as fine a crew of min in me house as iver ye laid eyes on. Lake sailors, every wan o' thim. And I'll be after havin' to find thim a ship." "That's easier than to find the min," said Hennesey, still watching for a sudden demonstration of Murphy's fist. "I'll be goin' to Philadelphy, I think, or Boston." "And it'll cost ye a hundred, Hennesey. I've done it.
Merchants, brokers, clerks, and city men generally in tall silk hats were hurrying and sometimes running along the pavement, making me think of the river by my father's house, whose myriad little waves seemed to my fancy as a child to be always struggling to find out which could get to Murphy's Mouth the first and so drown itself in the sea.
Murphy handed over his $10 in bail, received his receipt slip and stepped to one side to wait for John. "Gallant John Gallant," said John, following Murphy's lead. "Ten bucks," said the desk sergeant. "No, I mean what am I arrested for?" "Oh, you're particular, are you? Well, it's loitering in a gambling resort and playing the handbook.
Garrick would desire it of him, to be the editor of his works and the historian of his life. Murphy's Johnson, p. 145. Garrick and his profession have been equally indebted to each other. See ante, i. 456. See Boswell's Hebrides, Oct. 23. The anniversary of the death of Charles I. See ante, i. 211. He sent a set elegantly bound and gilt, which was received as a very handsome present.
"Considerably, thank you; whisky punch, sir, is about the best cure for bruises or dislocations a man can take." "I doubt that, sir," said a little matter-of-fact man, who had now interposed his reasonable doubts for the twentieth time during Murphy's various extravagant declarations, and the interruption only made Murphy romance the more.
Memoirs of Lord Carrington, containing a Description of the Government and Manners of the present Portuguese, 1782. 8vo. Murphy's Travels in Portugal, 1789-90. 4to. Monuments, public edifices, antiquities principally; the physical state of the country, its agriculture, commerce, arts, literature, &c. sensibly but not extensively. Link's Travels in Portugal, 1797-99. 8vo.
And if, in some instances, evil characteristics, such as combativeness, selfishness, and the habit of bad language, became accentuated, in spite of the stern discipline of the place, their opposites good temper, a light and happy disposition, and a civil tongue received their meed of recognition even from the bigger fellows, like Pagan I. or II., or that Captain of the School, often spoken of with bated breath Postman, Murphy's father, mated afterwards to the great beauty, Barbara, both being of the bluest of blue blood.
Murphy's story was received with acclamation by all but the little man. "That is all a pack of nonsense," said he.
At the close of the day on which Dennis received his promotion, and his horizon was widened so unexpectedly, Mr. Ludolph, in passing out, noticed him engaged as usual on one of Pat Murphy's old tasks. He stopped and spoke kindly, "Well, Fleet, where am I going to find a man to fill your place made vacant to-day?" "Would you be willing to listen to a suggestion from me?" "Certainly."
I had suffered in London from "Murphy's coldest day" in 1838, and thought it was in reality the coldest I had ever felt; but 1840 would have won the prize if left to his Majesty of Russia to decide the question. In addition to a black frost, there came with it a biting, piercing, easterly wind, which seemed to freeze and wither every thing it came upon.
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