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It seemed to Peter that the men inside were laughing at him or at the lemonade he was drinking, and, seeing among them one who had been interfering with him all day, he told him he would put him out of the house, and he would have done it if Mrs. Quinn had not told him that no one put a man out of her house without her leave. "Do you hear that, Peter Phelan?"
On the Lord's day after Maria Monk's arrival in Montreal, and when the matter had become well known and much talked about, Phelan, the Priest, at the end of mass, addressed the Papists, who were assembled to hear mass, to this effect: "There is a certain nun in this city who has left our faith, and joined the Protestants. She has a child of which she is ready to swear I am the father.
Ah! if Lartigue, Bonin, Dufresne, and Richards, with their brethren, Conroy, Phelan, Kelly and Quarter, were coerced to keep Lent, and live only upon soup-maigre, until that day arrives, they would not much longer portray in their exterior, that they live upon the fat of the land; but they would vociferously whine out "Mea culpa! O mea grandis culpa! O mea grandissima culpa! Peccava! Peccavi!
"That cooks him!" whispered Phelan to Mr. Tutt at the keyhole. "Wait and see! Wait and see!" muttered the lawyer. "We're not dead yet." Once back in their room the jury took another vote. Eleven to one again. Then Bently rose. "Gentlemen," he cried, "I think I have the key to this case." They all gazed at him expectantly. "We are obliged by law to give every reasonable doubt to the defendant.
Some twenty-five years before, Phelan had opened his eyes upon a half-circle of blue sky, seen through the end of a canvas-covered wagon on a Western prairie, and having first conceived life to be a free-and-easy affair on a long, open road, he thereafter declined to consider it in any other light.
People failed to recognize them on the street. Even Spreckels and Phelan, despite their wealth and long established standing, suffered certain social ostracisms. Wealthy evildoers found themselves as definitely threatened by the law as were the Supervisors. But wealth is made of sterner stuff. It did not cringe nor huddle; could not seek immunity through the confessional.
"You are a good boy, Peter," said the father, "and God will reward you for the love you bear your brother. I don't think there are two better men in the world. God has been good to me to give me two such sons." And then the three sat round the fire, and Pat Phelan began to talk family history.
The jury watched him as intently as a dog watches a piece of meat held over its nose. They smiled with him, they wept with him, they glared at Mr. Hepplewhite and they gazed in a friendly way at Schmidt, whom Mr. Tutt had bailed out just before the trial. The very stars in their courses seemed warring for Tutt & Tutt. In the words of Phelan: "There was nothing to it!" "Thank God," concluded Mr.
Moreover, as already shown, Shelby was nowhere near the scene of conflict, and Sevier was acting as Robertson's subaltern. Another fort, called Fort Lee, had been previously held by Sevier but had been abandoned; see Phelan, p. 42. "American Archives," 5th Series, I., 973; 500 women and children. Campbell MSS. Haywood says that the first help came from Evan Shelby; Col.
By this time the fire had died down, and the place was in semi-darkness. Phelan threw on a handful of sticks and, as the blaze flared up, he caught his first clear sight of his newly acquired clothes. They were ragged and weather-stained, and circled about with broad, unmistakable stripes. "Well, I'll be spiked!" said Phelan, vastly amused.
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