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It was understood, sir, that I should be private, sir, and I am invaded here by a route of people, sir, in violation of that understanding, sir!" The emphasis with which Mr. Jinks uttered the various "sirs," in this address, was terrible. O'Brallaghan was evidently daunted by them. "You know I am a great artist in the cutting line, sir," said Mr.
The wooer, in turn, grows cold and defiant; he upbraids the lady; he charges her with entertaining a passion for the rascal and coward Jinks. This causes the lady to repel the insulting accusation with hauteur. Mr. O'Brallaghan thinks, and says, thereupon, that she is a cruel and unnatural woman, and unworthy of affection or respect. Mistress O'Calligan wishes, in reply, to know if Mr.
O'Brallaghan means to call her a woman. Mr. O'Brallaghan replies that he does, and that if Mr. Jinks were present, he would exterminate that gentleman, as some small exhibition of the state of his feelings at being thus insulted by the worst and most hard-hearted of her sex. After which, Mr.
Let the reader, then, imagine this spectacle of torn garments, tattered hats, and brandished clubs not forgetting the tatterdemalion negro children, who ran after the crowd in the last state of dilapidation, and he will have some slight idea of the masquerade, over which rode, in supreme majesty, the trunk-nosed Mr. O'Brallaghan.
Ralph perfected the reconciliation by declaring that Fodder was the most vicious and dangerous of animals, and that no one could rationally wonder at his conduct on this occasion. O'Brallaghan thereupon observed that he despised Mr.
O'Brallaghan; Verty resembled the young forest emperor, which it was his wont to resemble, at least in costume; and Fanny was clad in the finest and most coquettish little dress conceivable. After mature deliberation, we are inclined to believe that her conquest of Ralph was on this day completed and perfected: the conduct of that gentleman for some days afterwards having been very suspicious.
"It is fixed for the time I mention; and now, sir, a few words will explain how, without damage to myself, or endangering my person considerations which I have no right to neglect my revenge on the hound, O'Brallaghan, will come out right! Listen, while I tell about it; then, sir, judge if the revenge is likely to be nice and good!" And Mr. Jinks scowled, and gulped down some rum.
O'Brallaghan observed, that if Mr. Jinks was laboring under the impression that he, O'Brallaghan, was to be frowned down by an individual of his description, he was greatly mistaken. And by way of adding to the force of this observation, Mr. O'Brallaghan corrugated his forehead in imitation of his adversary. Jinks replied, that he was equally indifferent to the scowls of Mr.
O'Brallaghan, upon hearing of this base desertion; and so, the desires of all were accomplished for weal or woe.
These words were ostensibly addressed to Mr. O'Brallaghan, who was, in contempt of Mr. Jinks, busily engaged at his work again; but, in reality, the whole harangue of Mr. Jinks was intended for the ears of a person in the crowd, who, holding a hot "iron" in her hand, had run up, like the rest, when the occurrence first took place. This person, who was of the opposite sex, and upon whom Mr.
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