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A secret feeling that all would go well had somehow taken possession of me, and I longed for O'Shaughnessy's coming, trusting that he might be able to confirm my hopes. His servant informed me that the major had been absent since daybreak, and left orders that he was not to be waited for at breakfast.
"There was a general look around on all sides, which seemed in vain; when a tremendous repetition of the cry resounded from O'Shaughnessy's coat pocket, thus detecting the valiant major himself in the very practice of his corps.
The waving hair was of purest flaxen, and the careless coiffure was as becoming as if arranged by the most skilful of hairdressers. What if the mouth were large, and the nose of no classical outline, no one who looked into Bridget O'Shaughnessy's eyes had either time or inclination to look further.
"By the by, I wonder Denis is not here before now," exclaimed his Reverence, lending a deaf ear to Mike O'Shaughnessy's interrogatory. Old Denis's favorite topic had been started, and he accordingly launched out upon it with all the delight and ardor of a fond father.
In the laughter which followed O'Shaughnessy's story I took the opportunity of making my escape from the party, and succeeded in gaining the street unobserved. Though the note I had just read was not signed, I had no doubt from whom it came; so I hastened at once to my quarters, to make search for the lock of Ned Howard's hair to which the senhora alluded.
Louderer and he are old acquaintances and he bosses her around like he tries to boss me. Before we left, Mrs. O'Shaughnessy's married daughter came, so we knew she would not be lonely. It was almost one o'clock when we got home, but all hands helped and I had plenty cooked anyway, so we soon had a good dinner on the table. Mr. Stewart had prepared a Christmas box for Jerrine and me.
If I'd been as careful as you, we might have lasted out until the children were grown up, but I was like Micawber always expecting something to `turn up. You must try to forgive me, Bride. You must not be hard on your old father!" Ah, and it was a lovely sight to see Bridget O'Shaughnessy's face at that moment the sweetness of it, and the pity and tenderness, and the deep, unselfish love!
"We got a glorious fellow in exchange for him; and Sparks descended into a cavalry regiment, I ask your pardon, Charley, where, as you are well aware, sharp wit and quick intellect are by no means indispensable. There now, don't be angry or you'll do yourself harm. So good-by, for an hour or two." O'Shaughnessy's wound, like my own, was happily only formidable from the loss of blood.
"You have got your teeth ready, then?" observed Dam, noting the underlying bareness and thereby alluded to O'Shaughnessy's habit of pawning his false teeth after medical inspection and redeeming them in time for the next, at the cost of his underclothing itself redeemed in turn by means of the teeth.
The sun was setting as I mounted, and joined by Hampden, Baker, the doctor, and another, set out for O'Shaughnessy's quarters. As we rode along, we were continually falling in with others bent upon the same errand as ourselves, and ere we arrived at Melanté our party was some thirty strong; and truly a most extraordinary procession did we form.
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