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Updated: May 21, 2025
Poor fellow, he was all too soon an accepted candidate for his passage over to the great majority. A certain attorney named Nagle used to do most of his work. Speaking of another attorney this Nagle remarked: 'He has the heart of a vulture. 'I know what's worse, was Ronayne's comment. 'Indeed! This Nagle was not remarkable for the extent of his ablutions.
Retracing his steps, he met Ronayne's servant entering at the mess-room door. "Where is your master?" he inquired. "How is it that he is not in his room has not been in bed?" "Not been in bed?" repeated the lad, with surprise. "Why, sir, he told me last night that he was very drowsy and should lie late; and, that he mightn't be disturbed, he desired me to sleep in one of the block-houses.
'You had better come away at once, Nagle. 'Why should I? indignantly. 'If you stop five minutes longer there's a shower of rain coming on and you might get washed. On a third occasion, Nagle told Ronayne he was going to invest some money in a mining exploration. 'Explore your own landed property, my dear fellow, was Ronayne's advice. 'But you know I have not got any.
"Eh? what! what!" spluttered the surgeon, as he jumped up, drew on his boots, dipped his face in a basin of water, and hastily completed his toilet. In less than five minutes he was on parade. Meanwhile, Lieutenant Elmsley, after giving this warning, had passed again through the mess-room, and knocked at Ronayne's door. But there was no answer.
I made the report of Ronayne's absence to him personally, and the doctor was summoned to state if he had seen any thing of him. He, however, was as ignorant as a man, who had been drunk during the night, and was not yet quite sober in the morning, could well be.
'That's very strange, for it is exactly the amount of ground I'd like to give him, i.e. for his grave. Another experience of Ronayne's was to the following tune. He had obtained advances from a local bank for his railway contract to the satisfaction of both parties, and when asked by the manager for some wrinkles about the making of a railway, replied:
How do you account or have you at all endeavored to account for Ronayne's absence?" "I can easily understand the cause," he replied, "but confound me if I can attempt to divine the means he took to accomplish his object."
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