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When within twenty paces of it, mindful of Mistress Nutter's injunctions, he placed the bugle to his lips, and winded it thrice. The summons, though clear and loud, sounded strangely in the portentous silence. Scarcely had the last notes died away, when a light shone through the dark red curtains hanging before a casement in the upper part of the tower.
Meanwhile, Mistress Nutter's captors dragged her forcibly towards the tower. Their arms and appearance left her no doubt they were depredators, and she sought to convince them she had neither money nor valuables in her possession. They laughed at her assertions, but made no other reply. Her sole consolation was, that they did not seek to deprive her of her Bible.
If I owe the British nation anything, I owe thanks to that particular British soldier who put a musket-ball into the fleshy part of Captain Nutter's leg, causing that noble warrior a slight permanent limp, but offsetting the injury by furnishing him with the material for a story which the old gentleman was never weary of telling and I never weary of listening to.
'Pat, my child, said his reverence, 'that Nutter's a divil of a fellow at least he was, by all accounts; he'll be bad enough, I'm afeared, and hard enough to manage, if everything goes smooth; but if he's kept waiting there, fuming and boiling over, do ye mind, without a natural vent for his feelings, or a friend, do ye see, at his side to to resthrain him, and bring about, if possible, a friendly mutual understanding why, my dear child, he'll get into that state of exasperation an' violence, he'll have half a dozen jewels on his hands before morning.
Nutter's friend may apply for an interview, and a I must confeth I don't yet quite understand the point of difference between you and him, and therefore 'A where the devil's that blackguard little French wazel gone to? exclaimed O'Flaherty, for the first time perceiving that his captive had escaped. 'Kokang Modate! Do you hear me, Kokang Modate! he shouted.
Puddock, but being bonâ fide in articulo mortis, can palliate his conduct. 'My dear Puddock, whispered Devereux, in his ear, 'surely you would not kill Nutter to oblige two such brutes as these? indicating by a glance Nutter's splendid second and the magnanimous O'Flaherty, who was still sitting speechless upon the ground. 'Captain Puddock, pursued that mirror of courtesy, Mr.
You'll find he'll oust Nutter at last, and get the agency; that's what he's driving at always undermining somebody. Doctor Sturk and Lord Castlemallard were talking apart on the high ground, and the artillery surgeon was pointing with his cane at distant objects. 'I'll lay you fifty he's picking holes in Nutter's management this moment.
There was a constant coming and going of persons not in the habit of paying visits in so unfashionable a neighborhood as Nutter's Lane.
Toole, with Juno, Cæsar, Dido, and Sneak at his heels, paid his half-friendly, half-professional visit at the Mills. Poor little Mrs. Nutter was much better quiet for her was everything, packed up, of course, with a little physic; and having comforted her, as well as he was able, he had a talk with Moggy in the hall, and all about Nutter's disappearance, and how Mrs.
Nutter is very far from well, Sir; in fact, in her bed-chamber, Sir, and laid upon her bed. 'Mrs. Nutter's here, Sir, said the man phlegmatically. He had just got out on the ground before the door, and extended his hand toward Mary Matchwell, whom he assisted to alight. 'This is Mrs. Nutter, relict of the late Charles Nutter, of The Mills, Knockmaroon, in the parish of Chapelizod.
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