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Updated: June 14, 2025
To-night, this Thursday, he was sputtering. “Shure and de y'know what now? I've two parties out there want finger bowls. Finger bowls!” sputtered Mr. O'Sullivan. “Shure an' it's a long ways from the sight of finger bowls them two was born. It had better be a pail apiece they'd be askin' for. Finger bowls indeed!” Mr. O'Sullivan had gotten down to a mumble. “Shure an' they make me sick!” Mr.
Joined by some Highlanders, they next attempted Fort-William, the last fortress of King George in the north, but on the 3rd of April were recalled to the main body. To cover Inverness, his head-quarters, Charles resolved to give battle. The ground chosen, flanked by the river Nairn, was spotted with marsh and very irregular; it was called Culloden, and was selected by O'Sullivan.
They viewed, then, genuflexions and alluring poses of this visitor with their chins at a new angle. "A friend of mine, Mr. Terry O'Sullivan," was Maggie's formula of introduction. She led him around the room, presenting him to each new-arriving Clover Leaf.
To the bitter disappointment and disgust of the Spaniards, only O'Sullivan Beare, O'Driscoll, and O'Conor of Kerry, declared openly for them; while they could hear daily of chiefs they had been taught to count as friends, either as prisoners or allies of the English.
When Charles Edward, the Stuart Pretender, landed in Scotland in 1745, he was followed by a small French force, including 500 Irishmen from the Brigade. Colonel John O'Sullivan was much relied on by the prince in his extraordinary campaign. Sir Thomas Sheridan also distinguished himself.
It was in this agreeable spirit that Barny bent his course to the house of Peter Kelly, the owner of the "big farm beyant," before alluded to, in order to put in practice a plan he had formed for the fulfilment of his determination of rivalling O'Sullivan.
In this omnibus there were two pleasant-looking girls, who talked Welsh together, a guttural, childish kind of a babble. Afterwards we got into conversation with them, and found them very agreeable. One of them was reading Tupper's "Proverbial Philosophy." On reaching Llandudno, S waited at the hotel, while O'Sullivan, U , and I ascended the Great Orme's Head.
All this time I was so much at home with the young Irish doctor, who was Martin's friend, that it was not until I was putting him down at his hotel that I remembered I did not even know his name. It was O'Sullivan.
They were each too splendid, too mighty, too incomparable to divide pre-eminence. One only must survive. "I live on Grand," said O'Sullivan, insolently; "and no trouble to find me at home. Where do you live?" Dempsey ignored the question. "You say your name's O'Sullivan," he went on. "Well, 'Big Mike' says he never saw you before." "Lots of things he never saw," said the favourite of the hop.
When he referred to the man as the Maltese Cockney, and I asked why, he replied: "First, because he is Maltese, Mr. Pathurst; and next, because he talks Cockney like a native. And depend upon it, he heard Bow Bells before he lisped his first word." "And has O'Sullivan bought Andy Fay's sea-boots yet?" I queried. It was at this moment that Miss West emerged upon the poop.
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