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They had been contemptible people whom it would be better to look at than to shoot. But here were men coming, or were there now, prepared to fight with him for his rights. And he would fight with them, even though hanging should be the end of it. "I will not interfere with them, unless they interfere with me." "Have you a pistol with you, Daly?" said Persse. "I have." "Then give it me." "Not so.
Persse and Le Gallais, who had just rallied, at once dismounted their men and opened carbine fire on the retreating Dervishes. Their action not only checked the enemy, but prevented, by getting the troopers off their horses, any chance of their being involved in the disorder of the squadrons who had just charged.
If I want to use a pistol it will be better to have it in my own pocket than in yours. If I do not want to use it I can keep it myself, and no one will be the wiser." "Listen to me, Daly." "Well, Mr. Persse?" "Do not call me 'Mr. Persse, as though you were determined to quarrel with me. It will be well that you should take advice in this matter from those whom you have known all your life.
"We'll not leave you in such a sad strait as that," said Mr. Persse. "It will be sad enough. If you had had a pack of hounds to look after for thirty summers, you wouldn't like to get rid of them in a hurry. I'm like an old nurse who is sending her babies out, or some mother, rather, who is putting her children into the workhouse because she cannot feed them herself.
Persse saw what he did, and knew that his hand was on the pistol. "We have only a minute now to decide," he said. "To decide what?" asked Daly. "There must be no violence on our side." Daly turned round his face upon him, and looked at him from the bottom of those two dark caverns. "Believe me when I say it; there must be no violence on our side." "If they attempt to stop my horse?"
Even though the hounds were to be taken away from him, and he were left at Daly's Bridge with the £200 a year which had come to him from his father, he would make no such acknowledgment as that to any gentleman in County Galway. So he shook his head, and said not a word in answer to Lord Ardrahan. "What do you propose to do, Daly?" demanded Mr. Persse. "Go on and draw till night.
His secret had been told only to Barney Smith, and with Barney Smith he knew that it would be safe. So they all trotted off at a pace much faster than usual. "What's up with Black Tom now?" asked Sir Nicholas of Sir Jasper. "What's Daly up to now?" asked Mr. Blake of Mr. Persse. They all shook their heads, and declared themselves willing to follow their leader without further inquiry.
"Had you not better trust it with me?" said Mr. Persse. "No, I am not such an idiot as to shoot a man when I do not intend it." "Seeing how moved you are, I thought that perhaps the pistol might be safer in my hands." "No, the pistol shall remain with me." Then he turned round to join Barney Smith, who was waiting for him up by the gate out of the covert. But he turned again to say a word to Mr.
He was thinking, as well as he knew how to think, of the position in which he was placed. To be driven to go contrary to his fixed purpose by fear was a course intolerable to him. But to have done that which was clearly injurious to his party was as bad. And this Persse to whom he had shown his momentary anger by calling him Mr., was a man whom he greatly regarded.
He immediately took command of the two squadrons under Persse and Le Gallais, and ordered them to 'right about wheel' and charge. Thus headed by Broadwood himself, and with their British officers several horse-lengths in front, the Egyptians broke into a gallop and encountered the Baggara line, which numbered not fewer than 400 men but was in loose order, with firmness.
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