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D 'ye call it a jewty for a man in my situation to break the hearts of Missus, and Miss Beuly, and phratty Miss Maud, and the babby? for babbies has hearts as well as the stoutest man as is going. Divil bur-r-n me, then, if ye gets out of my mout' so much as a hint that the captain's dead and gone from us, for ever and ever, amen!
Is it climb the palisades ye will, and be shot by a sentinel? if there was one, which there wasn't, yer honour, seeing that all had run away 'or do ye mane to stay here, says I, 'and be taken a prisoner of war ag'in, in which case ye'll be two prisoners, seem' that ye've been taken wonst already, will ye Nick? says I. So Nick never spoke, but he held up his finger, and made a sign for me to follow, as follow I did; and we just crept through the palisade, and a mhighty phratty walk we had of it, alang the meadies, and t'rough the lanes, the rest of the way."
And here's my stick, that Nick tould me to kape as a reminderer; it 's far bhetter for me than a book, as I can't read a syllable. 'And now, Mike, says the majjor, says he, 'conthrive to see phratty Miss Maud by herself' " "Pretty Miss Maud!" interrupted the young lady, involuntarily.
And who'll there be to tell this same to the Missus, and Miss Beuly, and phratty Miss Maud, and the babby, in the bargain? Divil bur- r-n me, if 't will be Michael O'Hearn, who has too much sorrow of his own, to be running about, and d'aling it out to other people. Sarjeant, that will be ver own jewty, and I pities the man that has to perform it."
"Och! it's meself that says that, and sure there 's plenty of r'ason for it; so we'll agree it's all right and proper 'phratty Miss Maud by herself, letting no mortal else know what you are about. That was the majjor's." "It is very extraordinary! Perhaps it will be better Michael, if you tell me nothing but what is strictly the major's.
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