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If your system were true, all efforts of man to save himself would be useless, and all your pulpits and sermons would be worse than useless; for they would be a gross imposition, and a loss of time." "There is where you are in error, Murty," said the parson. "Churches, pulpits, Bibles, and ministers are the machinery the Lord makes use of to secure the perseverance of the elect."
"I am afraid, parson," said Murty, breaking the embarrassing silence that continued for a few minutes, "I am afraid the lady has eluded the forceful grasp of your powerful prayer. I guess she will become a nun, too, notwithstanding your great efforts to make her sing "But I won't be a nun; I can't be a nun; I'm so fond of pleasure that I can't be a nun."
"Think the Lord has decreed Mary for the nunnery, reverend and learned sir?" said Murty, affecting great politeness.
"That I know," said Murty; "but have you heard that I have been cheated out of near two hundred dollars by my employer, and all through the influence of a villanous parson who got divorced from his wife, on account of a short answer I made him?" "What was the answer, Murty? I suppose it must be droll."
"Ah, git away with your advisin'," replied Murty. "Billy knows the horse an' where'd a shlip of a boy be if Shannon cleared out with him? I'd rather carry too much weight, an' know I'd put a man up as could hold the horse." His anxious eye fell on the girls. "Miss Norah and Miss Tommy! come here an' wish him luck without offerin' me any advice, or I'll lose me life over the ould race!
"Plenty!" agreed Billy; and lit a cigarette. "Shannon don't like anny other horse in front of him at all," went on Murty. "He's that full of pride he never tuk kindly to bein' behind, not since he was bruk in. He'll gallop like a machine an' lep like a deer if he gets his head." "I don't b'lieve you've much show, anyhow," Dave Boone said.
"Do you think he has any chance?" "Well, he can gallop and jump all right," Jim said. "But he hasn't had much training, and whether he'll jump in company is open to doubt. But I don't think he'll disgrace us. You've seen Murty riding him a big chestnut with a white blaze." "Oh, yes he calls him Shannon, doesn't he?" said Tommy.
"Well, I got worried, and so did Murty; because you know there isn't any stopping place between here and Killybeg when you come across the ranges. And Monarch's pretty uncertain in rough country, especially.
"Five weeks on my back, Murty! and goodness knows how much ahead. It doesn't suit me." "I will admit there's some on the station 'twould suit betther," Murty answered. "Dave here, now sure, he shines best whin he's on his back! an' I can do a bit av that same meself. "What's that, Murty?" "Mrs.
Hence she had her mind fixed on Murty, whom she regarded, as he really was, a young man of talent, and whose dependent and menial condition she considered as calculated to balance the disparity in their age, and as likely to insure her success.
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