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Updated: May 12, 2025
"Your addressing me as Mr O'Donahue, Miss Phillips, has pointed out to me the impropriety I have been guilty of in making use of your Christian name. I thought that that confidence which you placed in me when, as a mere boy, I told you exactly what I now repeat, that the secret was not my own, would not have been now so cruelly withdrawn.
Five or six years had elapsed since he had married, and both O'Donahue and his wife were anxious to visit England; a letter at last came, announcing that he had obtained leave of absence from the emperor, and would in all probability arrive in the ensuing spring.
"No, that I venture you did not, and it requires all the impudence of a midshipman to make such a one; but the fact is, Mr O'Donahue, I am a mate with 40 pounds a year, and upon that I have continued to assist my poor old mother up to the present. She now requires 10 pounds in consequence of illness, and I have not a farthing.
A journey of four hundred miles, day and night, is no joke: our travellers fell fast asleep in their spacious apartment, and it was not till the next day that they found themselves clean and comfortable, Joey being dressed in a rich livery, as a sort of page, and McShane doing duty as valet when others were present, and when sitting alone with O'Donahue, taking his fair share of the bottle.
"You have come a long way to see me, Captain O'Donahue, and I ought to be grateful," replied the princess: "indeed, I have much pleasure in renewing our acquaintance."
"Well, they must want dusting by this time, O'Donahue, so look after them if you please; but I think looking after your health is of more consequence, so you have my full consent to take a holiday, and remain away three months, if necessary, till you are perfectly re-established." "And you have mine," added Mr Sleek, "and I will do your work while you are away."
"Is it handsome you mane? As the ugly lady said to the looking-glass, I beg no reflections you wish to know who she is; well, then, you must be content to listen to all my adventures from the time we parted, for she is at the end of them, and I can't read backwards." "I am at your service, so begin as you please." "Let me see, O'Donahue, where was it that we parted?"
This he resolved to do immediately; the only idea which had presented itself to his mind was, if possible, to find some means of getting back to Captain O'Donahue, who, he was sure, would receive him, if he satisfied him that it was not safe for him to remain in England; but, then, must he confess to him the truth or not?
"Why, no, only rid of a blackguard not worth hanging; one of the marines, who was to have gone round the fleet this morning, when he went to the forepart of the ship under the sentry's charge, leaped overboard, and drowned himself." "What was his name, Captain B ?" inquired Joey, seizing him by the arm. "His name why, how can that interest you, O'Donahue?
One morning, as Joey happened to be in the counting-house by himself which was rather an unusual occurrence, a midshipman came in. Joey remembered him very well, as he had been often there before. "Good morning, Mr O'Donahue," said the midshipman; "is Mr Small within?" "No, he is not; can I do anything for you?"
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