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Even the sentries, posted outside the rampart to guard against alarm, stood to attention, and Colonel Carter, wincing from the pain in his right arm, walked out in front of where the men were lined up. Captain O'Rourke walked up and saluted him. "I've arranged to bury them in that trench we dug this evening, sir, when the trouble started. It's not very deep, but it holds them all.
The border-land of Breffni, whose chief was the first of the native nobles that perished by Norman perfidy, was at the beginning of the century swayed by Ulgarg O'Rourke. Of Ulgarg we know little, save that in the year 1231 he "died on his way to the river Jordan" a not uncommon pilgrimage with the Irish of those days.
There is not so much as a shoneen publican in a country town left who believes in the ranting of O'Rourke and his litter of blind whelps. Ireland is simply crying out for light and leading, and the Croppy is going to give both. You always wanted to serve Ireland. Now I am offering you the chance. I don't say you ought to thank me, though you will thank me to the day of your death.
She caught him in her strong arms, eased him to the ground and knelt there with his red head in her lap, showering his face with her kisses and her tears. It was thus that "Borax" O'Rourke, badly blown after his three-hundred- yard dash, found them. "Great snakes, young lady, what's happened?" gasped Mr. O'Rourke. "Three brutes and a man have been killed" she replied.
His ignorance of the simplest laws of nature, if nature has any simple laws, and his dense stupidity on every other subject were heavy trials to Mr. Bilkins. Happily, Mr. Bilkins was not without a sense of humor, else he would have found Mr. O'Rourke insupportable.
"It's a long time since I've seen the bay o' Dublin. I must shake hands with Bridget." Mollie gazed earnestly at Mr. O'Rourke. Was he Aunt Mary's long- ago lover? No he was too old. He must be twenty-two at least. But she felt almost sure that somehow he had something to do with that romance.
The priest, however, after watching month after month, at length found a letter, which seemed to give him infinite satisfaction. Its contents need not be revealed; but Father O'Rourke had at length found the means, so it appeared from his ejaculations, by which he could communicate with Dermot. The day arrived when the Earl and his family were to quit Kilfinnan Castle.
Though he had never seen a bulb in his life, Larry unblushingly asserted that he had set out thousands for Sir Lucius O'Grady of O'Grady Castle, "an illegant place intirely, wid tin miles o' garden-walks," added Mr. O'Rourke, crushing Mr. Bilkins, who boasted only of a few humble flower-beds. The following day he stepped into the garden to see how Larry had done his work.
William Condor, whose sinecure under government was not worth less than twenty thousand a year. "He must always uphold the honor of the glorious flag of our country." "Excuse me, General Belch, but I can not control my feelings; I must propose three cheers," interrupted Alderman MacDennis O'Rourke; and the three cheers were heartily given.
'I am glad to hear, said Augusta Goold, departing for the first time from her question, 'that there is anything left in the world that Mr. O'Rourke is ashamed of. I didn't think there was. It was Mr. Shea and not his leader who resented this last insult. His lips drew apart, leaving his teeth bare in a ghastly grin. He clenched his fists, and stood for a moment trembling from head to foot.
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