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It was he who was always an attentive listener; it was his scant purse that had often furnished Plunkett with means to pursue his unprofitable speculations; it was to him that the charms of Melinda were more frequently rehearsed; it was he that had borrowed her photograph; and it was he that, sitting alone in his little cabin one night, kissed that photograph, until his honest, handsome face glowed again in the firelight.
"Yer favour yer ma, I see," said Marm Plunkett, still holding Cricket's sleeve. "Dear! dear! she was a pretty one, that she was! You've got shiny eyes like her'n, but yer hair's a mite darker, ain't it? My! ain't them curls harndsome!" touching very gently one of the soft rings of Cricket's short hair.
The Irish Agricultural Organisation Society represents the fruit of a work begun in the face of incredible difficulties and remorseless opposition by Sir Horace Plunkett in 1889. "Better farming, better business, better living" these were the principles which he and Mr. Anderson set out to establish in Ireland.
The dead waste of the broad Wingdam highway never seemed so monotonous, so like the days that he had passed, and were to come to him, so like the old man in its suggestion of going sometime, and never getting there. He turned, and going up to Plunkett put his hand upon his shoulder, and said, "I want you to answer one question fairly and squarely."
His speech, as always, was most able, but the House, when he sat down, broke into an uproar of confusion. Party spirit ran exceedingly high; the possibility of advancing the question during the session was doubtful, and a motion to adjourn prevailed. A fortnight later, at the first meeting of the Catholic Association, a very cordial vote of thanks to Plunkett was carried by acclamation.
In that year Grattan had allowed himself to be persuaded by Fox, into entering the Imperial Parliament, and his old friend Lord Fitzwilliam found a constituency for him, in his Yorkshire borough of Malton. About the same time, Pitt, or his colleagues, induced Plunkett to enter the same great assembly, providing him with a constituency at Midhurst, in Sussex.
"Look sharp, then, and get your billet duxis before you go next time." Mr. Gray hurriedly broke the seal and read these words: Judge Plunkett has just returned from the county seat. Our case is won. We leave here next week. P.S. Have you got my address in San Francisco? "Any answer?" said the driver. "None." "Get up!"
"Look here, stand back, boys, it's my turn now. Plunkett Plunkett can I have a long-lost friend named Plunkett? Where is he, Uncle? has he gone to fight?" "Marse Plunkett? Naw, suh, he ain' fit nobody." "Well, you tell him from me that he'd better enlist at once," put in Jack Powell. "This isn't the time for skulkers, Uncle; he's on our side, isn't he?"
The son was already taller and larger than his father; and, in a playful trial of strength, "the young rascal," added Plunkett, with a voice broken with paternal pride and humorous objurgation, had twice thrown his doting parent to the ground. But it was of his daughter he chiefly spoke.
Then he went across the room and touched the bell. 'Parker, he said, when that invaluable officer appeared, 'go across to Mr Ward's House, and tell him I wish to see Plunkett. Say I wish to see him at once. 'Yessir. After ten minutes had elapsed, Plunkett entered the room, looking nervous. 'Sit down, Plunkett. Plunkett collapsed into a seat.
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