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"Ladies," said Andre, "the route is ordered before daybreak to-morrow, so we must say a farewell to you now, and leave you for a time to the sole charge of Mrs. O'Flaherty. She has orders from us, and from her putative spouse, to take the greatest care of you both, and we have endeavoured to arrange that you shall want for nothing during what we fervently hope will be but a brief absence."
Toole bounded to his feet in an instant, adjusting his wig and eyeing the new comers with intense but uneasy solemnity, which produced some suppressed merriment among the company. It was well for the serenity of the village that O'Flaherty was about to make a little speech a situation which usually deprived him of half his wits.
'I see you want to go, Lieutenant Puddock Lieutenant O'Flaherty, I promised to dance this country dance with you; don't let me keep you, Ensign Puddock, said Miss Mag in a huff, observing little Puddock's wandering eye and thoughts.
The fact is that Toole knew something of Miss Mag's plans, as he did of most of the neighbours' beside. Old Slowe was, in certain preponderating respects, much to be preferred to the stalworth fireworker, Mr. Lieutenant O'Flaherty. And the two gentlemen were upon her list. Two strings to a bow is a time-honoured provision. Cupid often goes so furnished.
Major Brown stopped suddenly, and pointed in the direction of the flame. "It is the Indian picquet," said O'Flaherty, calmly; "and as the facts I have been detailing may be more palpable to your mind, you shall see them with your own eyes. Yes, I repeat it, you shall, through the cover of this brushwood, see Caudan-dacwagae himself for he is with them in person."
On returning to my hotel, I found O'Flaherty waiting for me; he was greatly distressed on hearing my determination to leave town explained how he had been catering for my amusement for the week to come that a picnic to the Dargle was arranged in a committee of the whole house, and a boating party, with a dinner at the Pigeon-house, was then under consideration; resisting, however, such extreme temptations, I mentioned the necessity of my at once proceeding to headquarters, and all other reasons for my precipitancy failing, concluded with that really knock-down argument, "I have taken my place;" this, I need scarcely add, finished the matter at least I have never known it fail in such cases.
O'Flaherty paused when he arrived thus far, expecting that the opposite party would make some reply; but they continued silent: when suddenly, from the dense forest, there rung forth a wild and savage yell, that rose and fell several times, like the pibroch of the highlander, and ended at last in a loud whoop, that was echoed and re-echoed again and again for several seconds after.
Puddock, if I had half your janius for play-acting, persisted O'Flaherty, 'nothing i'd keep me from the boards iv Smock-alley play-house incog., I mean, of course. There's that wonderful little Mr. Garrick why he's the talk of the three kingdoms as long as I can remember an' making his thousand pounds a week coining, be gannies an' he can't be much taller than you, for he's contimptably small.
The purity of his style is greatly extolled by Gaelic critics; and the interest of his narrative, even in a translation, is undoubted. McFirbis, an annalist and genealogist by inheritance, is known to us not only for his profound native lore, and tragic death, but also for the assistance he rendered Sir James Ware, Dr. Lynch, and Roderick O'Flaherty.
'I don't ask particulars, my dear I abominate all that concerns a quarrel; but Lieutenant O'Flaherty, jewel, supposin' the very worst supposin', just for argument, that he has horse-whipped you . 'An' who dar' suppose it? glared O'Flaherty. 'Or, we'll take it that he spit in your face, honey.
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