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Syne, upon a suddenty, and wi' the ae dreidfu' skelloch, Tod sprang up frae his hinderlands and fell forrit on the wab, a bluidy corp. When the corp was examined the leid draps hadnae played buff upon the warlock's body; sorrow a leid drap was to be fund! but there was grandfaither's siller tester in the puddock's heart of him.
The signal given, Cluffe let go, entertaining himself with a little jingle of Puddock's guitar, of which he had charge, and a verse or two of their last song; while the plump little lieutenant, standing upright, midships in the boat, hauled away, though not quite so deftly as was desirable.
Just then Puddock's end of the boat touched a stone, or a post, or something in the current, and that in which Cluffe sat came wheeling swiftly round across the stream, and brought the gallant captain so near the bank that, with a sudden jerk, he caught the end of a branch that stretched far over the water, and, spite of the confounded tightness of his toilet, with the energy of sheer terror, climbed a good way; but, reaching a point where the branch forked, he could get no further, though he tugged like a brick.
Lillyman was at home, and came. 'Puddock's drowned, my dear Lillyman, and I'm little better. The ferry boat broke away with us. Do go down to the adjutant they ought to raise the salmon nets I'm very ill myself very ill, indeed else I'd have assisted; but you know me, Lillyman. Poor Puddock 'tis a sad business but lose no time. 'And can't he swim? asked Lillyman, aghast.
Cluffe, in virtue of his rank and pretensions, marched in the van, and, as Aunt Becky received him, little Puddock's round eyes swept the room in search, perhaps, of some absent object. 'The general's not here, said Aunt Becky loftily and severely, interpreting Puddock's wandering glance in that way. 'Your visit, perhaps, is for him you'll find him in his study, with the orderly.
Why the plague did he ask me here? it was Puddock's turn, and he likes venison and compots, and and but 'tis like them the women fall in love with the man who's in love with himself, like Narcissus yonder and they can't help it not they and what care I? hang it! I say, what is't to me? and yet if she were to leave it what a queer unmeaning place Chapelizod would be!
With which words he made another bow, and a pause of enquiry directed to Puddock, who lisped with dignity 'Sir, the duty is, for many reasons, painful; but I I can't refuse, Sir, and I accept the trust. So O'Flaherty shook his hand, with another bow; bowed silently and loftily round the room, and disappeared, and a general buzz and a clack of tongues arose. 'Mr. And so Puddock's bow.
'Puddock's drowned, panted Lillyman. 'Puddock! bless us! where? puffed Toole. 'Hollo! you, Sir have they heard it is he drowned? cried Lillyman to the sentry outside the gate. 'Dhrownded? yes, Sir, replied the man saluting. 'Is help gone? 'Yes, Sir, Lieutenant Brady, and Sergeant Blakeney, and nine men. 'Come along, cried Lillyman to Toole, and they started afresh.
Why, Sir, he's an old friend, and you could not pleasantly ask him to volunteer to bare his waypon against the boosom of his friend. No, Sir, shivalry is the handmaid of Christian charity, and honour walks hand in hand with the human heart! With this noble sentiment he bowed and shook Nutter's cold, hard hand, and then Puddock's plump little white paw.
Syne, upon a suddenty, and wi' the ae driedfu' skelloch, Tod sprang up frae his hinderlands and fell forrit on the wab, a bluidy corp. When the corp was examined the leid draps hadnae played buff upon the warlock's body; sorrow a leid drap was to be fund; but there was grandfather's siller tester in the puddock's heart of him.
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