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"Them that understands knows the difference between mankind, and I'm sure it can be no great sacret to the Lord, when it is so well known to a poor fellow like myself. There's a plenthy of fellow-cr'atures that has a mighty good notion of their own excellence, but when it comes to r'ason and thruth, it's no very great figure ye all make, in proving what ye say.
"Go on," said the captain, patiently, knowing that there was no use in hurrying one of Mike's peculiar mode of communicating his thoughts. "What came next?" "That will I; and the r'ason comes next, as is seen by this oder stick.
"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.
"Pooh! sargeant dear," exclaimed the washerwoman, "talk r'ason for once, and mind what the knowing one tells ye; call out the boys and ride a bit after Captain Jack; remimber, darling, that he told ye, the day, to be in readiness to mount at a moment's warning." "Aye, but not at a summons from the foul fiend.
If the rapscallions didn't fire a whole plathoon, as serjeant Joyce calls it, right at the Knoll, my name is not Michael O'Hearn, or my nature one that dales in giving back as good as I get." "But the volley came first from the house why did my father order his people to make the first discharge?" "For the same r'ason that he didn't.
However the existing controversy may have originated, it had already attained a stage for the display of considerable temper. "Now, ye see here, Swanska," growled the thoroughly aroused Irishman vehemently. "It's 'bout enough Oi 've heard from ye on that now. Thar 's r'ason in all things, Oi 'm tould, but Oi don't clarely moind iver havin' met any in a Swade, bedad.
"And so neither of you drank?" put in the captain, by way of a reminder. "For that same r'ason, and one betther still, as we had nothin' to dhrink. Well, says Nick 'Mike, says he 'you like cap'in, and Missus, and Miss Beuly, and Miss Maud, and the babby? Divil burn ye, Nick, says I, 'why do ye ask so foolish a question? Is it likes ye would know?
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