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And what was equally striking, the female portion of them were as free from the weakness and timidity of their sex, in this respect, as the males. On the morning but one afterwards, John Purcel proceeded to the house of his friend and neighbor, Fitzy O'Driscol, as he was usually termed for brevity. O'Driscol was rather a small man that is to say, he was short but thick, and of full habit.
O'Driscol, and that I-was such a wicked and desperate dare-devil as you are." "Good, Alick, upon my honor and conscience, you've hit me off there hallo what is this? put these pistols and that blunder-bush aside, and be d d to you, we don't want them yet awhile;" this was addressed to the servant who had brought them at Fergus's suggestion.
O'Driscol, who was only a newly-fledged magistrate, would, he knew, have made it the ground-work of a fresh communication to government, or to his friend the Castle, as he called it, especially as he had many other circumstances of less importance since his elevation to the magistracy.
They were quartered near an infantry regiment, which had been raised by MacFinn O'Driscol from among his own tenantry, and was commanded by him. O'Driscol was a relation of Mrs. Davenant, and the two commanders were often together.
I am morally convinced, ay, and have good raison to know it from more than one quarther, that your father's house would have been attacked long since, if it were not for the near neighborhood of dare-devil O'Driscol. And yet these fellows like courage, Alick; for instance, read that warning.
'It was with that sword, sir, that my father pinked Mohawk O'Driscol, in Dublin, in the year 1740; with that sword, sir, he met Sir Huddlestone Fuddlestone, the Hampshire baronet, and ran him through the neck. He was quite in the wrong, having insulted Lady Fuddlestone, when in liquor, at the Brentford assembly.
O'Driscol, like a man that knows the country, and can feel the pulse of the public officially I mean, of course, as a magistrate for it is now, and in times of such turbulence, that men I mean magistrates of your stamp will prove themselves serviceable to the government of the country, and to the country itself; intelligent and determined men I mean magistrates who know not what fear is, and who will do their duty at the risk of their lives."
"They know how to make cigars, if they don't know anything else," Captain O'Driscol said; "this is a first-rate weed." "So it ought to be by the brand," another officer said. "I took the two boxes from a cupboard that was locked up. There are a dozen more like them, and I thought it was as well to take them out; they are at present under the table.
He shook hands with all the officers after it was over, and sent a party down to the town to buy and bring up some barrels of wine, and served out a good allowance to each man. As soon as the firing ceased I heard him tell O'Driscol that he was proud to have commanded the regiment." "That is good, Terence; and now, do you think that you could bring me up just a taste of the cratur?"
"And very creditable to Swiggerly," added O'Driscol. "Yes, father," replied Fergus, "but I think he ought to preserve, if possible, a little more originality. The substance of that paragraph has been regularly in his paper, in one shape or other, three or four times a year during the last couple of years.
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