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Having satisfied himself that to burnish further its glittering buttons would be to gild refined gold, he commenced a vigorous brushing for it was now his high ambition to "get the stick" in other words to be dismissed from guard-duty as reward for being the best-turned-out man on parade.... As he reached up to his shelf for his gauntlets and pipe-clay box, Trooper Phelim O'Shaughnessy swaggered over with much jingle of spur and playfully smote him, netherly, with his cutting whip.
Fêted in London. Experiments with Dr. Whitehouse. Mr. Brett. Dr. O'Shaughnessy and the telegraph in India. Mr. Cooke. Charles H. Leslie. Paris. Hamburg. Copenhagen. Presentation to king. Thorwaldsen Museum. Oersted's daughter. St. Petersburg. Presentation to Czar at Peterhoff.
There are three other candidates, one of whom is a relation of your excellent curate's; but I have as yet made no decision, so that the appointment is still open. In the meantime, I command you to send back the horse to his proper owner, as soon after the receipt of this as possible, for O'Shaughnessy must not be shackled by any such stipulations.
The young fellow is able to pay for his hobbies, and is evidently keen on putting the place in repair. It is not every day that a millionaire comes to the rescue just when he is wanted, but this Mr Hilliard certainly seems the right man in the right place. Wonderful what glue can accomplish, isn't it, Miss O'Shaughnessy? it makes one almost wish to be in trade oneself!"
The American chargé d'affaires, Nelson O'Shaughnessy, was at once handed his passports, and all diplomatic relations between the United States and Mexico were severed. A few days later the representatives of the so-called A B C powers, Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, tendered their good offices for a peaceful settlement of the conflict and President Wilson promptly accepted their mediation.
At length my temper got the victory, and with a voice of most measured calmness, I said, "Major O'Shaughnessy, I am grateful, most deeply grateful, for the part you have acted towards me in this difficult business; at the same time, as you now appear to disapprove of my conduct and bearing, when I am most firmly determined to alter nothing, I shall beg to relieve you of the unpleasant office of my friend."
He is not Edwin, he is Jack, and I'm Bridgie Bridget O'Shaughnessy, just a bit of a girl like yourself, and not even engaged." Sylvia sank back in the bed with a great sigh of thanksgiving. "What a relief! I was so jealous of that husband, for I wanted you for myself, and if you had been married you would have been too settled-down and domestic to care for me. I do hope we shall be friends.
Father hates saying good-bye to Jack, hates him being in town at all, for he is the first O'Shaughnessy who has ever gone into business.
But Mrs Geoffrey Hilliard was not to be so easily appeased. She threw back her haughty head, lowered languid eyelids, and drawled out "My dear Bridgie, remember whom you are speaking about! Jack is the head of the family he's O'Shaughnessy of Knock!
I am holding him until father comes, so that he may give him in charge!" gasped Esmeralda wildly; and Hilliard looked from one sister to the other with eyes dancing with amusement. "I'm neither ghost nor thief, as Major O'Shaughnessy will testify when he arrives. I'm really exceedingly sorry to have made such an unfortunate impression, but I came on the most innocent errand.
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