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To such an extent had this passion gained upon him, that a corporal's guard was always in attendance whenever he dined out, to convey him home to the barracks. The wearisome monotony of a close garrison, with so ungenial a companion, would have damped any man's spirits but O'Flaherty's.
The boom swung sharply across the boat. Ten minutes later we were leaning together across the boom gathering in the mainsail. "What became of the boys?" I asked. "Is it Anthony O'Flaherty's boys? The last of them went to America twenty years ago. But sure that was before you came to these parts." No one knows how the quarrel between Peter Joyce and Patrick Joseph Flanagan began.
O'Flaherty made his grandest bow, quite forgetting the exposure at the top of his head; and Puddock stood rather shocked, with the candle in one hand and O'Flaherty's scalp in the other. 'You come, Sir, I presume, from Mr. Nutter, said O'Flaherty, with lofty courtesy.
As we entered the cabin Sanderson, the surgeon, emerged on tiptoe from O'Flaherty's state-room, and requested us, in a whisper, to make as little noise as possible, as the lieutenant, under the influence of a soothing draught, had just dropped off to sleep.
But ultimately they reached, in various states of mind, but safely enough, O'Flaherty's lodgings. Here the gigantic invalid, who had suffered another paroxysm on the way, was slowly assisted to the ground by his awestruck and curious friends, and entered the house with a groan, and roared for Judy Carroll with a curse, and invoked Jerome, the cokang modate, with horrible vociferation.
After tiffin they all went on board, where their baggage had been sent before, the Italian band playing all the time on Captain O'Flaherty's steamer, which put them on board. General Noury had sent word to Captain Sharp that he should continue with the party to Colombo, and that he could proceed at once to that port.
"Why, I thought he'd broken your head, Terry?" "Phooh! that's nothing? A piece o' plaster'll set all to rights; and Terry O'Flaherty's not the boy to care for the stroke of a supple-jack. Besides, didn't I tell you that I giv' him as good as he brought and better!
We had been thoughtful enough to bring our chests along with us in the boat, so that we could join at once, if need were; these were accordingly hoisted up over the side, and the boatman dismissed; after which, at O'Flaherty's invitation, we descended to the cabin to cement our new friendship over a glass of wine, and to have a chat about the cruise upon which we were about to enter, leaving the boatswain to superintend the operations on deck.
He saw that his visitors observed those symptoms with some perplexity: the major was looking steadfastly at O'Flaherty's lips, and unconsciously making corresponding movements with his own, and the fair Magnolia was evidently full of pleasant surprise and curiosity.
Dragging it up and along the shore, he fastened it to a fisherman's stake just by Twinrip. Then Connor felt he had discharged his duty Larry O'Flaherty's boat was safe high and dry out of reach of eddying logs. Now, eager, dripping, and breathless with eyes like stars, he flew home again.
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