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Malone never appeared before dinner his late sittings at night requiring all the following day to recruit him for a new attack upon the rum bottle. Now, although his seeing so little of his brother officer was any thing but unpleasant to O'Flaherty, yet the ennui of such a life was gradually wearing him, and all his wits were put in requisition to furnish occupation for his time.
The expression of increasing wonder and surprise depicted in Mr. Cudmore's face at these words, my friend Phiz might convey I cannot venture to describe it suffice it to say, that even O'Flaherty himself found it difficult to avoid a burst of laughter, as he looked at him and resumed.
An', as if that was not delay enough, who should come in to stop for the night but Father O'Flaherty, of Cahirmore, that was buyin' a horse at the fair! An' av course, there was a bed to be med down for his raverence, an' some other attintions; an' a long discoorse himself an' ould Mrs.
O'Flaherty came discreetly round, to examine the proceedings of his diplomatical chef. The lady in the mask was listening with all her might; Mr. Billings was drawing figures on the table with punch; and the Count talking incessantly.
So they came, one after another, and filled up the town Abe Cohen, the Jew clothing dealer, Barringer, the druggist, Dr. Barton, rival of Dr. Smelter and a far more highly skilled practitioner, Jake O'Flaherty, the saloon-keeper, Widow Stokes, rag carpet weaver and gossip, Jeremy Whitling, town carpenter, and his golden-blonde daughter Lucy, school-teacher, Dr. Sohmer, dentist.
"Dear Sir, I'll make a seaman of Neil, with all my heart, if you will send him across to Portsmouth. Let him inquire for me at the `Star and Garter. Should I be away on a cruise, I will leave word with the landlady what is to be done with him. My craft is the Serpent. "I remain, faithfully yours, "Terence O'Flaherty."
So now for my suit of sable, and then to dinner. Punctual to my appointment with O'Flaherty, I found myself a very few minutes after six o'clock at Mrs. Clanfrizzle's door. My very authoritative summons at the bell was answered by the appearance of a young, pale-faced invalid, in a suit of livery the taste of which bore a very unpleasant resemblance to the one I so lately figured in.
If this had been done in Lisbon, where the French had been masters, there might have been some sort of excuse for it; but they had never been near Oporto at all, and therefore the people there had no scores to settle with them." "I am afraid, O'Flaherty, that an army worked on your principles would never get far from the coast, for we should have the whole country against us."
And Nutter could never have found it out who was to tell him, unless that ojus French damon, that's never done talkin' about it; and O'Flaherty strode heavily up and down the room with his hands in his breeches' pockets, muttering savage invectives, pitching his head from side to side, and whisking round at the turns in a way to show how strongly he was wrought upon.
Upon a solemn pledge from O'Flaherty that the terms of the compact were to be observed as he stated them, they agreed to march with their arms to the ford, where, having piled them, they were to cross over, and make the best of their way home.
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