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"It cost over a hundred last year." "Nonsense! it didn't cost a fifth of it." But Mr. Plunket knew he had the best right to know, for he had paid the bills. From the first, Mr. Plunket felt that opposition was useless.
Plunket, however, again rose, and Mr Kingston grasping hold of him, supported him above water, though with much difficulty, as the lad, who bled profusely from the mouth and nostrils, convulsively clung round him, and almost dragged him down to the bottom. Fortunately, he released himself from the clutch of the now senseless youth, and continued to support him by swimming and treading water.
In an instant the victim was up at the hook once more. They kept him there for an hour, but when he came down he was perfectly garrulous. "Old man Plunket goes too much to the Arcady Saloon," said he. "Three times he's been there in an hour; and him with a family. Old man Plunket would do well to swear off." It was monstrous and incredible, but there it was. There was no getting round it.
Good gracious, Mr. Plunket, I should like to know what you call comfort. How can any one be comfortable in such a miserable old rattletrap of a place as this?" "You thought it a love of a house, you remember, before we came into it." "Me? Me? Mr. Plunket? Why, I never liked it; and it was all your fault that we ever moved here." "My fault?" "Yes, indeed, it was all your fault.
Some considerable change, however, was introduced into the spirit of the Irish Government by the appointment of Lord Wellesley, who was in favour of the Catholics, to the viceroyalty. One of its most important results was the removal of Saurin from the office of Attorney-General and the appointment of Plunket in his place.
I have found out that the real use of conversational powers is to put them forth in tete-a-tete. A man is flattered by your talking your best to him alone. Ten to one he is piqued by your overpowering him before a company. Denison was agreeable enough. I heard only one word from Lord Plunket, who was remarkably silent.
His attire savoured a good deal of the SHABBY-GENTEEL; his clothes, which had much of tarnished and faded pretension about them, did not fit him, and had not improbably fluttered in the stalls of Plunket Street.
Gladstone himself on the Conservative Budget of 1852, pronounced, amidst the willing assent of a younger generation, that there had been nothing like it since Plunket. The unequivocal success of the first speech into which he had thrown his full power decided for some time to come the tenor of Macaulay's career.
So much for driving a hard bargain. "HADN'T you better give your landlord notice to-day, that we will move at the end of the year, Mr. Plunket?" "Move! For heaven's sake, Sarah, what do we want to move for?" "Mr. Plunket!" "Mrs. Plunket!" "It's a very strange way for you to address me, Mr. Plunket. A very strange way!" "But for what on earth do you want to move, Sarah? Tell me that.
Plunket was perfectly aware, particularly as said relative was a member of his family. She happened to be present when the above spicy conversation took place. As soon as he had retired, she broke out with "Humph! just like him; any thing to be contrary. But I wouldn't live in this old rattle-trap of a place another year for any man that ever stepped into shoe-leather.
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