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The pause gave him time to think of another argument, which might otherwise have escaped him. "When we were married, me dear Jane," he said, "there was a detective in the room to watch the presents. Two of them. I remimber seeing them at once. There go two of the boys, I said to mysilf. I mean," he added hastily, "two of the police force." "But detectives at wedding receptions are quite ordinary.
Thin he opened a door in another passage an' I found mysilf up to my knees in Benares river-water, an' bad smellin' ut is. More by token I had come out on the river-line close to the burnin' ghat and contagious to a cracklin' corpse. This was in the heart av the night, for I had been four hours in the temple.
Wait till the night, an' your work will be ready to you. Wid your permission, Sorr, I will investigate the camp, an' talk to my ould frinds. 'Tis no manner av use thryin' to shtop the divilment now." 'Wid that I wint out into the camp an' inthrojuced mysilf to ivry man sober enough to remimber me.
That is an epigram. I made ut. "Thin a lot av whishperin' divils surrounded the palanquin. 'Take ut up, sez wan man. 'But who'll pay us? sez another. 'The Maharanee's minister, av coorse, sez the man. 'Oho! sez I to mysilf, 'I'm a quane in me own right, wid a minister to pay me expenses.
"Timper it better, is it?" answered Bryan, putting the iron bar in the fire, and regarding his companion earnestly while he blew the bellows. "Faix, 'tis mysilf I'd need to timper better, in order to put up wi' the likes o' you, ye wretched crature. How can ye expict it to kape its idge when ye lave it for iver lyin' among yer pots and kittles?"
The women were rockin' in rows, their di'mond belts clickin', an' the tears runnin' out betune their hands, an' the lights were goin' lower an' dharker. Thin there was a blaze like lightnin' from the roof, an' that showed me the inside av the palanquin, an' at the end where my foot was, stood the livin' spit an' image o' mysilf worked on the linin'. This man here, ut was.
I couldn't have wished nothin' no better than that. And nobody couldn't nayther. I'll be up to-morrow mysilf to help and the nixt day, too. Don't tell me there's nothin' I can't be doin'. Jim can run things to home, can't you, Jim?" Little Jim thought he could. "I'll have Pat and Moike see to gettin' him a new suit to-morrow.
Besides being covered and clotted with mud, he was saturated with water from head to foot, his clothes rent in a most distressing manner, and his features quite undistinguishable. "Why, Bryan, what ails you? Where have you been?" inquired Stanley, in a tone of sympathy. "Bin, is it? Sorra wan o' me knows where I've bin. It's mysilf is glad to be sartin I'm here, anyhow."
O'Shaughnessy, "I am afraid if it had been mysilf I'd have been after raising a little hell here intirely." Our hostess was not offended, and there followed a long recital of earlier-day hard times that you would scarcely believe any one could live through.
"Bedad, that's the same case wid mysilf," interposed Mr McCarthy, exhibiting the articles he wore as he spoke, which, from their repeated patchings and general state of dilapidation, would certainly have carried off the prize at a curiosity show. "Sure, and it's walkin' on my fut I've bin the last foor days entirely."
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