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'A damned privit, sez he. 'An' is ut like, think you, that thim I know wud be connect wid a privit like me? Number tin thousand four hundred an' sivin, he sez, grinnin'. I knew by the turn av his spache whin he was not takin' care to talk rough that he was a gentleman ranker.
Issiwasti, he sez, 'Issiwasti, Privit Mulvaney, these two will be buried together in the Civil Cemet'ry at my expinse, an' may the good God, he sez, 'make it SO much for me whin my time comes. Go to your wife, he sez; 'go an' be happy. I'll see to this all. "I left him still considherin'. They was buried in the Civil Cemet'ry together, wid a Church of England service.
That's just about wot 'e would say. When I've put in my boy's service it's a bloomin' shame that doesn't count for pension I'll take on as a privit. Then I'll be a Lance in a year knowin' what I know about the ins an' outs o' things. In three years I'll be a bloomin' Sergeant.
My reply was drowned in yells and outcries from the next fire, where ten men were shouting for 'Orth'ris, 'Privit Orth'ris, 'Mistah Or ther ris! 'Deah boy, 'Cap'n Orth'ris, 'Field-Marshal Orth'ris, 'Stanley, you pen'north o' pop, come 'ere to your own comp'ny! And the cockney, who had been delighting another audience with recondite and Rabelaisian yarns, was shot down among his admirers by the major force.
"Thin the Tyrone, wid the Ould Rig'mint in touch, was sint maraudin' and prowlin' acrost the hills promishcuous an' unsatisfactory. 'Tis my privit opinion that a gin'ral does not know half his time fwhat to do wid three-quarthers his command. So he shquats on his hunkers an' bids thim run round an' round forninst him while he considhers on ut.
'Go easy! he answered; wrapping a huge arm round each. 'I would have you to know that I am a god, to be treated as such tho', by my faith, I fancy I've got to go to the guard-room just like a privit soldier. The latter part of the sentence destroyed the suspicions raised by the former. Any one would have been justified in regarding Mulvaney as mad.
Nine roun's they were even matched, an' at the tenth About that palanquin now, There's not the least throuble in the world, or we wud not ha' brought ut here. You will ondherstand that the Queen God bless her! does not reckon for a privit soldier to kape elephints an' palanquins an' sich in barricks.
He wheeled suddenly round, and in a indignant voice, said, "Go way go way! This is a privit intervoo." I didn't stop to enrich the old gentleman's mind with my conversation. I sort of inferred that he wasn't inclined to listen to me, and so I went on. But he was right about the umbreller. I'm really delighted with this grand old country, "Mr.
It took me back, I can tell yer. The coach was full of grinnin' passengers, an' the worst of it was that I didn't know how long Tom had been drivin' slow behind me an' takin' me out of windin'. There's nothin' upsets a cove as can't sing so much as to be caught singin' or spoutin' poetry when he thinks he's privit'.
They took no servnts, because they wisht, they said, to be privit. And so, when I had shut up the steps, and bid the postilion drive on, I bid ajew to the Honrabble Algernon, and went off strait to his exlent father. "Is it all over, Chawls?" said he. "I saw them turned off at igsactly a quarter past 12, my lord," says I. "Did you give Miss Griffin the paper, as I told you, before her marriage?"
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