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He shook and questioned, but from the dazed operator he could get only one word, "O'Neill," and stepping to the hall door Glover called out "O'Neill!" It has been said that Glover's voice would carry in a mountain storm from side to side of the Medicine Bend yard. That night the very last rafter in the Wickiup gables rang with his cry.
That a word, a look, a smile from him that day could have changed the whole current of my life, and that. . . . But no, I will not reproach him. Have I not known since the day on St. Mary's Rock that above all else he is a born gentleman? And yet. . . . And yet. . . . And yet I was a fool, or in spite of everything I should have spoken to Daniel O'Neill before he left Rome.
Try Fort Rucker for the Special." "There's no night man at Fort Rucker." "But Burling, the day man, sleeps upstairs " "He goes up to Bear Dance to lodge." "This isn't lodge night," said Blood. "For God's sake, how can you get him upstairs, anyway?" trembled O'Neill. "On cold nights he sleeps downstairs by the ticket-office stove. I spent a night with him once and slept on his cot.
"And sure Miss Hill would not be after changing her opinion of her humble servant for no reason in life but because her father and mother, who have taken a prejudice against him, are a little contrary." "No," replied Phoebe; "I should not change my opinion without any reason; but I have not yet had time to fix my opinion of you, Mr. O'Neill."
He had reason to be somewhat surprised at hearing Bampfylde assert it was O'Neill who had pulled down the rick of bark. "By the holy poker!" said he to himself, "the old fellow now is out there.
In the first place, the writers, even when eye-witnesses, seem to have assumed that the country was peaceful and prosperous up to that time; whereas not only had the tribal wars which had gone on incessantly until a few years before reduced the people almost to a condition of famine, but the rebels themselves, such as O'Neill and Desmond, had ravaged the country anew.
Regnault made a gentle gesture of thanks and closed his eyes. His long fingers slid on the ivory beads and his lips moved. O'Neill gazed down on him with a weakness of bewilderment; his landmarks were shifting. He was standing thus, looking in mere absence of mind, when a footfall beyond the screen reached his ear. "Oh Lord!" he cried. It was she.
This is certainly incorrect, for Captain O'Neill and I went over the ground very carefully and counted eleven dead Spaniards, all of whom were actually buried by our burying squads.
Hugh had been educated in England, had been much at Court, and had found favour with Elizabeth, who had confirmed him in the title of Earl of Tyrone which had been originally granted to his grandfather. Tyrone was the very antipodes of Shane, the last great O'Neill leader. He was much more, in fact, of an English politician and courtier than an Irish chieftain.
It's mainly the women pushing from behind fat horse-leeches' daughters always screaming 'more, more' when there's " "Leeches! Peaches, you mean! You ought to see " "When there's no way to get any more but to bleed it out of Corinne Garland here! which is duly done. Brutal egoism, that's the philosophy " "Police!" cried O'Neill, puffing good-humoredly.
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