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O'Brallaghan laid down the stick which he had seized, and ogled the lady, declaring in words that the wish of mistress O'Callighan was law to him, and that further, he had no desire to fight with the individual before him, who had been making use of abusive and threatening language, and had even drawn his skewer. Jinks stated that he would have no more altercation with an individual of Mr.
O'Brallaghan came forward, scissors in hand, and smiling, like a great ogre, who was going to snip off people's heads, and eat them for his breakfast only to satisfy his hunger, not from any malevolent feeling toward them. Mr. O'Brallaghan, as his name intimated, was from the Emerald Isle was six feet high had a carotty head, an enormous grinning mouth, and talked with the national accent.
His errand was soon told, and O'Brallaghan entered into extensive explanations and profuse apologies for the delay in sending home Mr. Verty's suit left with him. It would have received "attinshun" that very morning it was in the back room. Would Mr. Verty "inter?"
If there was anything which O'Brallaghan preferred to a personal encounter with fists or shillelahs, that object was money; and Mr. Jinks knew that O'Brallaghan would not touch him. Therefore Mr.
O'Brallaghan's standing in society he would not demean himself and from that moment shook the dust of his, O'Brallaghan's, establishment from his, Jinks', feet. Which declaration was accompanied with a savage kick upon the door. O'Brallaghan congratulated himself upon the extreme good fortune for himself involved in Mr.
The house of Jinks, sir, can right its own wrongs." "No doubt; but remember one circumstance. I myself hate O'Brallaghan with undying enmity." "How is that, sir?" "Can't you guess?" "No." "Why, he had the audacity to sell my plum-colored coat and and the rest of my suit to this Mr. Verty." "Oh yes." "Abominable conduct! only because I did not call at the very moment to try on the suit.
I'm a great deal better looking now," said Verty; "the fact is, Mr. Roundjacket, my hair was too long." To this Mr. Roundjacket assented, and they returned, laughing, to the office. Verty looked over his shoulder, and admired himself with all the innocence of a child or a savage. One thing only was disagreeable to him the high heels which Mr. O'Brallaghan had supplied him with.
O'Brallaghan is pulled from Jinks that hero rises, and attempts to flee. He rushes into the arms of another lady, who, in passing near the crowd, has been caught up like a leaf and buried in the combat Miss Sallianna. But fate is again adverse, though impartial. Mr. Jinks and O'Brallaghan are felled simultaneously by mighty blows, and the rout closes over them.
The shamrock rises wild and overwhelmed with terror, recreant to Ireland, and quailing before Michael, who has stumbled over Sheeley. Mr. Jinks retreats through the press before O'Brallaghan, who pursues him with horrible ferocity, breathing vengeance, and on fire with rage.
O'Brallaghan had two or three months before been bound over in a large sum to keep the peace of the commonwealth against the inhabitants of the said commonwealth, and especially that portion of them who dwelt in the borough of Winchester; which fact Mr. Jinks was well acquainted with, and shaped his conduct by.
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