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The expression of Dr. O'Donoghue's face made Mr. Doyle pause. He turned and saw Meldon standing on the threshold. "Be damn!" he said, "if it isn't Mr. Meldon. The Major was telling me last week he was expecting you. You're looking well, so you are. England agrees with you." "I can't say as much for you," said Meldon. "You're getting fat. You ought to take more exercise.
"I'll take it, of course," said Doyle, "if it's quite convenient to the Major; but it wasn't it I came for." "What was it, then? If you have any idea of dragging the Major into that salmon ambuscade of O'Donoghue's, I tell you plainly I won't have it." "It's nothing of the kind," said Doyle. "After what you said on Friday we gave that notion up.
There had been a libel case between the Rev. Denis O'Donoghue, parish priest of Ardfert, and myself. The address of this cleric in proposing Mr. Blennerhasset at the nomination had annoyed those he assailed intensely. Up to that point I had been utterly indifferent, but after that I strained every nerve to defeat Father O'Donoghue's nominee. This is an extract from his speech at Ardfert:
Some amusement was caused by the panic of The O'Donoghue's supporters at the votes I was getting, and presently they brought up in cars one poor man in an advanced stage of consumption, and another unable to walk from old age.
O'Donoghue's real feelings are. I don't suppose you know what a supposititious case is?" "I do not. It was a backward place where I was reared, and I wasn't kept to school regular; and what's more, the Irish wasn't taught in them times." "It wouldn't have helped you much if it was," said Meldon. "A supposititious case is the same thing, very nearly, as a hypothetical proposition.
"Of course she was sitting at the O'Donoghue's right hand, all silks and gold, and heaps of pearls in her hair. She kissed her hand to me, very politely, which was the most she could do, being a Princess, so grandly dressed, and meself in my old grey coat and patched corduroys." "And did she look natural? the darling!" "A trifle paler and prouder but pretty much the same as ever, Biddy."
All through the day a fierce nor'-wester raged, and huge white-crested waves, known locally as 'The O'Donoghue's white horses, beat on the shores of Lough Leane. Then followed hail-showers such as I have never seen before or since.
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